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After Bush put Yushchenko in office he set about ‘delivering’ for Bush. One of the things Yushchenko is to deliver is Transdniester through GUUAM.

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U.S. officials still are waiting to see what President Viktor Yushchenko can deliver.
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"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."
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But the declaration on the development of a strategic partnership is the main outcome of the visit. A summit meeting of the GUUAM, the members of which are Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova, is being planned for April 22 in Chisinau. That organization was founded at the end of the 1990s as a counterweight to the CIS. Russian was able to render the GUUAM ineffective then. Now Ukraine and Georgia are determined to revive it. They have even decided on a new agenda. A joint settlement plan for Transdniester will be introduced. They are obviously not making room there for Russia, which had been the key player in regulation attempts. Saakashvili made it clear that, if a settlement is reached in Transdniester, they will take on to other conflicts, Abkhazia in particular.
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