(Novosti-Ukraine) – The tenth session of the GUAM Council of Foreign Misters in New York under the UN Summit 2005.
Attending the gathering were the Foreign Ministers of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova. Participants in the gathering stressed the progress in the implementation of the Chisinau declaration "For democracy, stability and development".
The ministers approved the recommendations of the first group of experts on the review of the regulatory documents of the organization to be established on the base of the GUAM. He also appreciated news by the Ukrainian side on the accreditation of the GUAM Information Office in Kiev.
The Council of Foreign Ministers reiterated the interests in the establishment of mutually profitable cooperation with the European Union. He also appreciated the development of cooperation among the GUAM members under the international organization, in particular UN and OSCE, and underlined the crucial role of the interaction with the United States. During the GUAM-US meeting they stressed that the GUAM had unique opportunities for deepening cooperation with participants in the alliance and strengthen its role in Europe and Euro-Atlantic area. The participants in the meeting put an accent on the cooperation in the implementation of the US frame program on assistance to trade and transport and provision of border and customs control.
They also stressed mutual aspiration of sides to intensifying the cooperation in fighting with terror and transnational crime. In the end the meeting coordinated the communiqué of the GUAM Council of Foreign Ministers and joint statement by the GUAM-US.