An interview with H.E. Mr. Ion Robu, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Moldova to Azerbaijan ...

Ukraine’s newly-arrived ambassador in Baku, H.E. Mr. Boris Klimchuk, shared these comments with “Azerbaijan in the World” about how his government sees GUAM developing ...

This is a defining moment in the history of GUAM, one more important than the initial agreement that launched this regional grouping a decade ago, more difficult than the accession and departure of Uzbekistan from its ranks, and more uncertain than any time before, with the possibility that Russian actions in Georgia will make GUAM a more significant body than it has ever been before and the threat that those same actions will result in the death of GUAM as a player in the geopolitics of Eurasia. On the one hand, Moscow’s invasion of Georgia and Georgia’s decision to leave the Common...

As many commentators and analysts have pointed out, GUAM was the brainchild of those countries – Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Moldova – which joined the Commonwealth of Independent States but which were interested in pursuing a more Western orientation than the other eight members.  Its birth mother, if you will, was the Conventional Forces in Europe talks, where the four first made a joint declaration about their orientation. At the same time, we should recognize that NATO and especially the United States played a role as foster mothers or babysitters as the organization t...