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Azerbaijan pointed out that the work of transport corridor has accelerated in both bilateral and multilateral formats. Azerbaijan also has interest in revitalizing GUAM as an organization for economic cooperation and as a platform for resolving conflicts that exist in the GUAM area. “First and foremost, it is necessary to combine efforts to resolve existing conflicts in the GUAM area,” Altay Efendiyev, GUAM's secretary general and an Azerbaijani diplomat, said in December. Azerbaijan also called GUAM to increase its attention to trade and transportation.
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Moldova and Ukraine do not share such interest.
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Washington Summit in 1999 and Yalta Summits in 2001 and 2002 of GUAM. According to him, the organization is based on geographical principles and most of all on cooperation through Transcaucasian highway and serves economic goals of its member states. On 4 May 2011 Heydar
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Uzbekistan's decision to cease its membership in GUAM. In 2006, name was changed to The Organization for Democracy and Economic Development.
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