This is a blow to Bush. But not to worry, Yushchenko and Saakashvili will keep on blowing Bush.
Backround: The Yushchenko-Timoshenko forces want to align with Georgia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Moldova (the other nations in the GUUAM configuration of junior league NATO aspirants) in erecting a ring of iron around Putin and the former Soviet Union. U.S. troops are already in Georgia, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. How long before they are in Kiev, training "President" Yushchenko's NATO-ized military in the use of American equipment – and advising a spiffed-up Ukrainian military within striking distance of the Kremlin?
"This [GUUAM] alliance lies "strategically at the hub of the Caspian oil and gas wealth, with Moldava and the Ukraine offering [pipeline] export routes to the West.
"Dominated by Anglo-American oil interests, the formation of GUUAM ultimately purports to exclude Russia from the oil and gas deposits in the Caspian area, as well as isolating Moscow politically [my emphasis-LC]."
"In the context of GUUAM and the SRS, Washington has encouraged the formation of pro-US client states strategically located along oil pipeline routes. The latter are to be "protected" by NATO under GUUAM and various other military cooperation agreements. The hidden agenda is to eventually cut the Russians off altogether from the Caspian oil and gas fields [my emphasis-LC].
"With a view to weakening Moscow's control over Caspian oil, several alternative pipeline routes have been envisaged. The Baku-Supsa pipeline—inaugurated in 1999 during the War in Yugoslavia and protected military by GUUAM—totally bypasses Russian territory. The oil is transported by pipeline from Baku to the Georgian port of Supsa, where it is shipped by tanker to the Pivdenny terminal near Odessa in the Ukraine. Both Georgia and Ukraine are part of the GUUAM military alliance. This Pivdenny terminal has been financed—in agreement with the (neo-fascist) government of President Leonid Kuchna—by Western loans." #msg-4675029
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UZBEKISTAN SECEDES FROM GUUAM 18:50
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.
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