Saakashvili, Gimpu to invite Lukashenka to GUAM?

Georgia's president Mikhail Saakashvili  and acting Moldova's president Mikhai Gimpu are to invite Alexander Lukashenka to join the GUAM bloc which is considered in Moscow as clearly anti-Russian, reports the Russian business daily Kommersant covering the results of Gimpu's visit to Georgia. The Organization for Democracy and Economic Development or GUAM, founded in 1999, unites Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova. Saakashvili nand Gimpu appear to have decided to boost the alliance. They allegedly would like to replace a 'weak link' in the form of Ukraine after Victor Yanukovich came to power with Belarus whose relations with Russia are sour.

Georgian officials decline to comment on this possible offer to Lukashenka to tie Belarus with GUAM, but they confirm Lukashenka was invited by Saakashvili to Georgia, namely to a resort in the village of Anaklia. The Georgian authorities are now awaiting an official reply from Minsk.