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]] GUAM (, Ukraine , Azerbaijan , and Moldova . The grouping was created as a way of countering the influence of Russia in the area, and it has received backing and encouragement from the United States . Though at one point it was generally considered to have stagnated, recent developments has caused speculation on the possible revival of the organization. In 1999 , the organisation was renamed GUUAM due to the membership of Uzbekistan , which however withdrew from the organisation in May 5 2005 , causing the restoration of the original name. History Cooperation between Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova started with the GUAM consultative forum, established on October 10 , 1997 , in Strasbourg and named after the initial letters of each of those countries. In April 1999 , Uzbekistan also joined, changing the name of the grouping to GUUAM. A summit in Yalta in 6-7 June, 2001, was accompanied by the signing of GUUAM's charter, which formalized the organization. In 2002 , Uzbekistan however announced that it planned to withdraw from the organization, and following this announcement started to ignore GUUAM summits and meetings. In the following years the grouping was generally considered to have stagnated: Among other things, the 2004 meeting in Yalta was only attended by two of the five leaders while the GUUAM official website (see below) still shows the Old Georgian Flag and lists Uzbekistan as a member. However the recent series of " Color Revolution s" in Georgia and Ukraine, as well as a perceived pro-Western and anti-Russian shift in the political agenda of the Moldovan governing party, followed by increased cooperation and coordination between these three countries, has led many to speculate on the possible revival of GUUAM. {Link without Title} The most recent summit of GUUAM happened in - Black Sea region" while the president of Ukraine, Victor Yushchenko , said that a new page had been written in the history of organization. {Link without Title} On May 5 , 2005 , Uzbekistan finally gave an official notice of withdrawal from the organization to the Moldovan presidency, changing the group's name back to GUAM. On April 21 , the GUAM countries formed a common front on several issues in the CIS Foreign Ministers Council that was held at that time in Moscow. Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova lodged complaines against restriction imposed by Russia against some of their national products. At the same time, the four GUAM countries made a proposal to discuss the "frozen conflicts" of Transnistria , Abkhazia , South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh . Lastly the other three GUAM nations alone supported Ukraine's proposal to condemn the Holodomor , the 1930s famine of Ukraine, as a Genocide . {Link without Title} Members [[Image:EUandGUAMandEurasec.png|500px|thumb|right| ]]
Organizational structure GUAM is organized as follows:
Issues One of the issues associated with GUAM is competition between two proposed transporation corridors to better link Europe with Asia . Russia, Azerbaijan, and Iran have already been through rounds of negotiation on their plan, the North-South Transporation Corridor ; neighbouring countries (with the understandable exception of Armenia ) have expressed enthusiasm as well. This corridor would travel along the border between Russia and the Baltic States of the European Union , then continue south through Ukraine, The USA would prefer the critical transportation corridor bypass both Russia and Iran. The plan proposed to GUAM by the United States crosses both the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea . See also
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