ВКЛАД ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ ЗА ДЕМОКРАТИЮ И ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЕ РАЗВИТИЕ – ГУАМ В ПРЕОДОЛЕНИЕ ГЛОБАЛЬНОГО КРИЗИСА

Анотація

South-Eastern Europe, GUAM being its natural part of, became a scene of promotion of a large number of regional initiatives after the end of the Cold War; some of them were transformed into a full-scale international and regional organizations of cooperation. GUAM was the last of them; Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova have taken this decision only on May 23, 2006 at the Summit in Kyiv, while GUAM initiative was founded on October 10, 1997.

If one takes a glance at the map of Europe, it will be clear what a small space is the territory of GUAM, as well as its population, not to mention the level of industrial production or trade. At the same time the same glance would say to any unbiased expert what the potential this space has. Needless to say that only under the condition of coordinated efforts, aimed at the formation of space of civilized cooperation based on European principles, values and practice, this potential can be used effectively.

At the same time an indisputable advantage of GUAM is the fact that all member-countries are operating based at the same set of values; the system of foreign policy priorities are also very close or even coinciding in main components and, consequently, the decision-making process is efficient and dynamic even dealing with the most difficult problems, global crisis included.

UAM experience in developing Free Trade Area, diversification potential and implementation of Trade and Transport Facilitation Project is a vivid demonstration of that fact.