Uzbekistan came out of Guuam

On Thursday, the President of Moldova received an official notification of the leadership of Uzbekistan on the withdrawal of this country from GUUAM, ITAR-TASS reports. As indicated in the document, "Uzbekistan considers it necessary to declare his withdrawal from GUUAM in connection with a significant change in the initially declared goals and objectives."

The Moldavian leader Vladimir Voronin took the post of chairman of Guuam after the Chisinau summit in April 2005, the agency recalls. In addition to Uzbekistan, Guuam, created in 1997, includes Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova.

Tashkent announced his intention to leave the organization back in 2002, when President Islam Karimov did not come to the next summit in Yalta. Then this decision was explained by the "lack of progress in the activities" of "Guuam.

The organization was created as a transport corridor between Asia and Europe, but according to Russian observers, the true goal of the organization of the organization was the desire to contrast it with the CIS and create a "sanitary corridor" around Russia. The presidents of Poland and Romania were invited to the last summit of Guuam.