Azerbaijan
GUAM Summit in Batumi, Georgia
Officials from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine converged in the Georgian city of Batumi for a two-day GUAM summit on 1-2 July. Azerbaijani, Georgian and Ukrainian Presidents Ilham Aliyev, Mikheil Saakashvili and Viktor Yushchenko participated in the summit in person. The Moldovan president Vladimir Voronin, however, was not present. Moldova instead sent its interior minister to the summit. Apart from member countries, representatives of up to 25 countries attended the summit as well. Presidents of Poland Lech Kaczyński and of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus also arrived to participate in the summit.
