“Moldova, however, has distanced itself from the organization in recent years and President Vladimir Voronin sent Interior Minister Valentin Mejinschi as his representative at the summit,” writes iStockAnalyst about the third summit of the GUAM countries, ending on July 2 in the Georgian town of Batumy. Info-Prim Neo reports that Moldova is also represented by deputy Foreign Minister Valeriu Ostelep, at the reunion called by the Azerbaijani news agency APA “the trilateral of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.” “The organization is widely viewed as a counterweight to another regional grouping, the Moscow-dominated Commonwealth of Independent States, or CIS,” writes “The Turkish Weekly”. “Only Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin, who has been pressured by Russia to withdraw from the pro-Western organization, snubbed the gathering. Despite that suggestion that the grouping may be suffering the first shudders of disintegration, this year's summit is taking place under the bullish motto: "GUAM -- Integrating Europe's East," the publication reads. “Energy security dominated the agenda of the GUAM summit,” writes the Tbilisi-based “The Messenger Online”. The three presidents, Viktor Yushchenko, Mikhail Saakashvili and Ilham Aliev, discussed the contruction of a an oil pipe, which, if connected to Odessa–Brody–Gdansk pipe, could transport the Caucasian oil to Europe. Now the pipe is used to carry Russian oil to Odessa's harbors. The backers of the project want it to become operational in 2011. “Only three of the four GUAM countries are a part of the project. Left out is Moldova; earlier, the country’s president expressed doubts about the direction the regional alliance was headed. In an interview with Russian newspaper Kommersant, Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin said the future prospects of GUAM are “vague” and that Moldova would not stay in the group “if there is no economic interest” for the country,” reads “The Messenger Online”. “Ukraine firmly believes that a correct format should be sought in order to hold constructive talks to resolve disputes in frozen conflict zones within GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova),” said Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. He brought as an example the Transnistrian conflict, where “there had been great progress towards the resolution, as both Moldova and Transnistria approved of the plan to settle the matter which was proposed by Ukraine,” „RosBusinessConsulting” reports. The two-day summit has been attended by the Presidents of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus, and Poland, Lech Kaczynski, as observers, as well as officials from the United States, Japan and the Czech Republic.