Moldovan Foreign Minister Andrei Stratan, whose country chairs the regional cooperation organization, said today he has received official confirmation from Tashkent through diplomatic channels.
RFE/RL reports that Stratan also confirmed that Uzbekistan had announced its intention to formally leave the organization during a GUUAM summit last month in Chisinau.
GUUAM was set up in 1997 by Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova with a view to enhancing energy and economic cooperation among its founding members. Uzbekistan joined two years later.
Uzbekistan last month regretted that GUUAM had turned into what it said was a "political organization." Tashkent effectively ceased to participate into the organization's work in 2002.
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Uzbekistan Pulls Out Of GUUAM
Chisinau, 5 May 2005 (RFE/RL) -- The Uzbek government has informed Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin that the country is formally pulling out of GUUAM.
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