GUAM and OSCE – the Role of Multilateral Institutions in Dealing with the Security of the Greater Black Sea Area
GUAM and OSCE – the Role of Multilateral Institutions in Dealing with the Security of the Greater Black Sea Area

Summary/Abstract: The Greater Black Sea Area is a security complex which is heavily dominated by Russian strategy of controlling its direct neighborhood. In order to encourage multilateralism and the involvement of the Western powers in the region, the local states are using the existing international/regional organizations. At the last GUAM informal summit, in October 2006, the member states supported Georgia in its conflict with Russia and called on other CIS member countries to support common efforts toward overcoming the crisis in Russia-Georgia relations. In December, at the OSCE summit, Russia will try again to decouple the issue of withdrawing from Moldova and Georgia, as it committed itself to do at the 1999 Istanbul Summit, from the request that NATO Baltic states sign the adapted Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE). The OSCE’ European members should resist attempts by Russia to make the organization endorse the non-fulfillment of Russian commitments.

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