Vladimir Voronin, Ilkham Aliyev, Viktor Yushchenko and Mikhail Saakashvili

COMM From left to right: Moldavian President Vladimir Voronin, Azerbaijani President Ilkham Aliyev, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili stand hand in hand with one another after a plenary session of GUAM summit (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldavia) in Kiev, Tuesday, May 23, 2006. GUAM two-day summit, in which Presidents of the four countries and high-ranking guests participated, was opened in Kiev on May 22. It is expected that the declaration about GUAM transformation into the International “Organization for democracy and development ­ GUAM” will be officially proclaimed at the summit. Photo by Mikhail Markiv / POOL / UNIAN