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Thursday, 26 June 2003
US OFFICIAL MEETS WITH GUUAM GROUP AMBASSADORS IN WASHINGTON
By empty (6/26/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage met with the ambassadors of Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova (the GUUAM group) at the State Department June 24 to discuss multilateral projects on regional security and economic development, and the 3-4 July GUUAM Summit of Heads of State in Yalta, Ukraine. The Deputy Secretary underscored US interest in and enthusiastically endorsed the progress made on joint US-GUUAM projects in trade and transport facilitation and law enforcement cooperation. Deputy Secretary Armitage emphasised that the United States has high expectations that agreements on these programmes will be approved at the GUUAM Summit of Heads of State in Yalta, Ukraine on 3-4 July 2003.
Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage met with the ambassadors of Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova (the GUUAM group) at the State Department June 24 to discuss multilateral projects on regional security and economic development, and the 3-4 July GUUAM Summit of Heads of State in Yalta, Ukraine. The Deputy Secretary underscored US interest in and enthusiastically endorsed the progress made on joint US-GUUAM projects in trade and transport facilitation and law enforcement cooperation. Deputy Secretary Armitage emphasised that the United States has high expectations that agreements on these programmes will be approved at the GUUAM Summit of Heads of State in Yalta, Ukraine on 3-4 July 2003. The Deputy Secretary and the visiting Ambassadors attached great importance to the strengthened cooperative relationship between the United States and GUUAM and agreed that the organisation has the potential to foster beneficial development for the entire region. (UzReport)