The EaP CSF commends the results of the 6th Eastern Partnership Summit and considers it a success. At this critical juncture in the EU’s relations with its Eastern neighbours when both sides are facing multiple and complex challenges, the commitment of the EU and EaP leaders to the continuation of the policy sends a strong signal to the citizens of the partner countries and EU member states.
The EaP CSF Working Group 3 on environment, climate change and energy security welcomes and supports the recently published EaP CSF position paper on the Joint Staff Working Document (JSWD), ‘Recovery, resilience and reform: post-2020 Eastern Partnership priorities’ as well as the results of the 6th EaP Summit.
During the 13th EaP CSF Annual Assembly, Tatsiana Khomich, Coordination Council representative for political prisoners, delivered a speech on the situation in Belarus.
The EaP CSF Steering Committee decisively condemns the disproportionately violent response of the police during the protest in Baku on December 1 and restrictions on the freedom of assembly guaranteed by the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The EaP CSF Steering Committee calls on the international community, the governments of democratic countries and the EU to take all necessary measures towards the dictatorial regime in Belarus and to continue to demand the unconditional release of political prisoners, the safeguarding of fundamental rights and freedoms, and the holding of free democratic elections in Belarus.
After the second round of self-government elections in Georgia, and the resulting tense situation, the EaP CSF Georgian National Platform calls on the election commissions, first and foremost, the Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) not to ignore any complaints and make impartial decisions to them, to identify all violations and not to repeat the predecessors’ mistakes about the recounting of votes in precincts.
No recovery without democracy: rule of law and democratic accountability at the heart of recovery, resilience and reform.
The EaP CSF Steering Committee is deeply concerned by the “Agreement on Cooperation between the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus and the State Security Service”, signed in 2016, which entered into force on 1 August 2021.
Against the backdrop of the heightened political repression and unprecedented attacks against civil society in Belarus, several civil society activists have been arrested.
The Georgian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum expresses indignation at the decision taken by the ruling party to cancel the April 19 agreement reached through the efforts of international partners.