On 24-28 July 2007, the Lithuanian Centre for Geopolitical Studies and the Centre of International and Regional Policy of St.Petersburg organized a SummerAcademy in Dubingiai, Lithuania. Participants of the conference analyzed conflicts in Moldova and Trans-Dniester region, Georgia and Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as well as the role of the third countries in managing these conflicts. Professional political analysts, politicians, diplomats, representatives of public and civil organizations, youth from the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Trans-Dniester region (Moldova), Georgia, territories of Georgia - Abkhazia and South Ossetia investigated the reasons of conflicts in the post-soviet space, as well as their forms, dynamic and consequences, looked for possible solutions, ways for conflict regulation, involvement of relevant mediators etc.
What is happening today between Moldova and Trans-Dniester, between Georgia, Abkhazia and Sothern Ossetia? Is it possible to regulate conflicts „frozen“ by the post-soviet space peacefully, to co-ordinate the interests of conflicting parties and make a decision appropriate for all?
On 24-28 July 2007 the Summer Academy was organized in Dubingiai. During the event the most important “frozen” conflicts of the post-soviet space were discussed, i.e. the conflicts between Moldova and Trans-Dniester region and between Georgia, Abkhazia and Sothern Ossetia.
“The time has come to abandon stereotypes in resolving conflicts in Caucasus,” Abkhaz Deputy Foreign Minister Maxim Gvindjiya said talking to a REGNUM correspondent. “We have been telling Georgia long ago that we need to live on – trade with each other, develop normal relations instead of thinking to make someone dependant,” the official added. Maxim Gvindjiya stressed that “development of the relations will be mutually beneficial both for Georgia and Abkhazia.”
“There are no frozen conflicts in Ukraine now, there frozen problems,” Georgia’s Ambassador to Lithuania David Aptsiauri announced at the International Summer Academy held at Lithuanian Dubingiai conference center and dedicated to problems of the Baltic and Black Sea cooperation and Russia’s role in “frozen conflicts,” a REGNUM correspondent reports.
Sinikka Hurskainen, Rapporteur on the political situation in Belarus of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has arrived in Minsk for “collecting information, for meeting with people and for discussing the situation in the country”.
Belarus is dealing with the issue concerning the acquisition of the antiaircraft-missile complex C-400 from Russia, reported to the BELTA correspondent Major-General Igor Azarionok, the Commander of the military air forces and ABM of Belarus.
Journalists of the Kaliningrad newspaper “Страж Балтики“ (‘Guard of the Baltics’ – the official publication of the Baltic Fleet) have disclosed certain specific details about the naval exercise of maritime forces, which were carried out in the Baltic Sea in June 2010.
The President Viktor Janukovich signed the earlier approved by the Parliament Law on “The Principles of Foreign and Internal Policy”, which enforces the status of the Ukraine outside the block and revokes the joining of the country into the NATO, reported on 15 July NEWSru.ua referring to the press office of the Government.