At its 96th plenary meeting, on 8 September 2017, the General Assembly, on the proposal of Georgia,42 referring to its resolution 58/85 of 9 December 2003, by which it granted the GUUAM observer status in the Assembly, recalling its resolution 67/109 of 17 December 2012, in which it took note that the GUUAM had been transformed into the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM by the Heads of State of members of the organization in their Kyiv Declaration of 23 May 2006,43 and referring to its resolutions 69/271 of 2 April 2015 and 71/15 of 21 November 2016, decided that the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM shall assume the rights and responsibilities of the GUUAM as an observer invited to participate in the sessions and the work of the Assembly in accordance with its resolution 58/85.
