Bezhuashvili: Initiative on considering frozen conflicts at UN General Assembly in GUAM countries has not ripened

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GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) countries’ initiative to discuss issues of frozen conflicts in the GUAM countries’ territories at the 61^st session of the UN General Assembly, Georgia’s Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili announced at a news conference in Tbilisi on December 6.

According to him, GUAM foreign ministers decided at their meeting in Brussels to postpone this issue from being introduced to the UN scheduled for December 7. “The issue is on the agenda of the 61^st General Assembly and it will not be taken away from it by next September, so we shall put in on the agenda as soon as it has ripened and is completely ready,” Bezhuashvili said noting that GUAM’s aim was not just discussion of the issue, but adoption of effective decisions, Trend reports.

Initially, consideration of the frozen conflicts issue in the territory of GUAM (Nagorno Karabakh, Georgian-Abkhaz, Georgian-Ossetian and Transdnestr conflicts) was scheduled to take place in New York on December 4, and then it was postponed for December 7. The new point on prolonged conflicts in the GUAM territory was introduced to the agenda of the 61^st General Assembly in September. 16 countries voted for putting the issue on the agenda including Latvia, Turkey, Great Britain and the USA. 15 countries voted against, including Armenia, Greece and Russia.