CHISINAU, May 5 (RIA Novosti, Vladimir Novosadyuk) - Uzbekistan has informed Moldova, the GUUAM chairman, about its secession from this regional organization, the staff of the Moldovan President told RIA Novosti giving no comments to this effect.
The GUAM association (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) was established in October 1997. Uzbekistan joined the organization in 1999 and it was renamed GUUAM.
In 2002 Uzbekistan suspended its GUUAM membership.
The Uzbek ambassador to Moldova presented Uzbekistan at the last GUUAM summit on April 22.
According to experts, Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova initiated the restoration of GUUAM, as a CIS alternative.
