Tahir Tagizade, the Chief of Press & Information at the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, told Trendthe subject of delayed conflicts in the areas of GUAM (a regional organization consisting of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) has been included in the Agenda of the 61st session of the UN General Assembly.
Representatives of GUAM put forward the appeal in New York on 13 September 2006, to include the said item into the agenda of the 61st session of the UN General Assembly, despite the General Committee of the Assembly having recently rejected the appeal. Sixteen countries, including Estonia, Latvia, Turkey, UK and the United States supported the inclusion of the item. Fifteen countries, including Russia, Algeria, Armenia, Greece, Indonesia and South Africa voted against, 65 countries declined to vote and 96 countries were absent.
GUAM countries insisted that the issue be considered at the UN General Assembly, stating that the international mediation in the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh, the Georgian-Abkhaz, the Georgian-South Osetian and Pre-Dniester conflicts yielded no results.