At the outset, I would like to thank the organizers for the invitation, genuine hospitality, and excellent organization of the event. I’m honored and privileged to represent ODED-GUAM as we mark our 20th Anniversary this year. As you may know, we are based in Kyiv, [...]
Yesterday, after a very nice family-like celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the ODED-GUAM in the GUAM Headquarters, located in the city center, on Maydan, we, the international personnel, together with Ukrainians, lived through yet another terrible night of horror organized by the “glorious Russian [...]
Today, we mark the 20th Anniversary of the establishment of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development — GUAM. Twenty years ago, on May 23, 2006, leaders of four friendly nations and strategic partners gathered in Kyiv to inaugurate a new organization aimed at contributing [...]
February 24, 2026, marks four years since the beginning of the Russian Federation's illegal, unprovoked, and unjustified full-scale war of aggression and military invasion of Ukraine, which followed armed aggression and occupation of parts of Ukrainian territories in 2014. This is the most brutal, atrocious [...]
I want to complement the post on our social media (https://x.com/GUAMSecretariat/status/1976574357615869966) with personal remarks, after another night of terror we lived through in Ukraine on October 10, 2025. I want to draw a parallel here and refer to my P.S. to my Address on the [...]
Bravo, Azerbaijan! Congratulations! Finally, the deal is done, and a breakthrough is made! Despite all the odds and dangers of making such a great effort hollow, a compromise has been struck today in Baku, keeping the global process on track and ensuring that all the [...]
It is my honor and privilege for the fourth time to participate in the summits of the Crimea Platform. At the outset, I would like to congratulate Ukraine on the 4th Annual Crimea Platform Summit, which is organized amid the ongoing unprovoked, unjustified, illegal military [...]
5 August 2024, the Secretary General of Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM H.E. Mr. Altai Efendiev met with the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Azerbaijan H.E. Mr. Yuriy Husev at the Embassy of Ukraine in Baku. In a friendly and [...]
On May 23, 2006, the leaders of the GUAM founding Member States gathered at their regular Summit in Kyiv to declare the establishment of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM. The aim of the transformation of the regional initiative into a full-fledged [...]
Two years ago, on February 24, at about 04:20, I was awakened in my residence in the center of Kyiv by the powerful blast of a rocket explosion that had stricken the city, notifying the beginning of the sinister imperialistic plans of the Russian leadership [...]
