Protracted+conflicts+in+the+GUAM+area+(Georgia-Ukraine-Azerbaijan-Moldova)+and+their+implications+for+international+peace,+security+and+development

The post-soviet related 'frozen conflicts' of the GUAM region have been a nuisance to the region for the past 15 years. It is estimated that 16 million people in the region have been affected over the course of these years. The territorial disputes and conflicts in the region have strained diplomacy between nations in the GUAM region. That is what inspired Georgia, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova to found the GUAM group in 1995 which is an economic, political, and strategic alliance working towards development and security in the region. This group was tested recently with novel conflicts and tensions in the region relating to Russia interventionist policy and separatist movements in the region. Prime examples of these challenges include the separatist movements in Georgia in the South Ossettian and the Abkhazian area, also the rather successful independence of Kosovo forced a redefinition and modification of the GUAM group's general policy towards such separatist movements. Such aformentioned conflicts continue to pose challenges to the cooperation and alliance in the GUAM group. Most recently, on September 16th of 2008 the GUAM group had a summit meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan. The meeting discussed the novel challenges posed and solutions to maintain security and development in the area. Iraq fully supports the cooperation between the GUAM nations in finding a post-soviet era of peace and development and calls for further awareness on the 'frozen' or protracted conflicts in the area that are rarely discussed in world forums. Iraq believes that those efforts of cooperation are essential to the solution of those issues. We affirm the necessity to study the implications of those conflicts for international peace and security in order to understand the urgency we need to meet them with.

Encourages the GUAM organization to find peaceful measures of diplomacy and dialog in the form of treaties to resolve territorial differences given that: a)The treaties and agreements made be commendable to all sides of the conflict and agreeable through means that defer any possible future armed conflict b)The treaties are also submitted in the form of General Assembly resolutions to be voted on by the General Assembly c)The amenability of the agreements be consistent with the GUAM countries and excluding the wants and influences of foreign superpowers in order to ensure the deferring of possible future conflicts due to unresolved underlying causes

what does Russia want and think?-Support of certain secessionist movements in Georgia, might spill over