The Steering Committee of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum expresses its deep concern with regard to the escalation of the conflict in the Donbas region of Ukraine by the Russian sponsored separatist forces and urges international community not to remain silent. During the past few days the Russian forces have carried out a large-scale
The Georgian National Platform (GNP) of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF) has issued a statement openly condemning the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the city of Bichvinta, in the occupied region of Abkhazia. By so doing, the Russian Federation violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement between Russia and Georgia signed on 12 August 2008. President Putin’s visit
The Belarusian National Platform (BNP) of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum has released a statement, condemning the criminal prosecution by Belarusian authorities of the leaders of the Belarusian independent trade unions. Two days ago, the premises of the Belarusian Trade Union of Radio Electronic Workers (REP) in Minsk and of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union in Soligorsk were searched by officers of the
The EaP CSF produced a detailed commentary to the Joint Staff Working Document (JSWD) “Eastern Partnership – Focusing on key priorities and deliverables”, issued by the European Commission and the European External Action Service in December 2016. It is the EU’s second comprehensive attempt to set clear and time-focused benchmarks for the Eastern Partnership policy. In
The EaP CSF Moldovan National Platform has issued a report presenting a mid-term evaluation on the implementation of the EU Association Agreement, as well as the results of public policies monitoring within various civil society projects, since the EaP CSF annual assembly in November 2016 in Brussels. Moldovan civil society organizations continue to monitor the measures undertaken
The EaP CSF Steering Committee welcomes the conclusion of the negotiations on the new EU-Armenia Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement on 28 February in Brussels and the initialing of the agreed text on 21 March in Yerevan by the Chief Negotiators of both parties. Speaking at the Congress of the European People’s Party on 29 April, the Armenian
The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum, the European Youth Forum and the International Partnership for Human Rights strongly condemn the large-scale detentions of peaceful protesters in Minsk and other cities of Belarus during the Freedom Day demonstrations on 25 March 2017. Denouncing these actions, the undersigned organizations urge the Belarusian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release those detained during the peaceful protests, to investigate the use of violenceagainst
Over the course of March 2017, mass peaceful protests of citizens as a reaction to the adoption of the Presidential Decree No. 3 “On preventing social dependency” have been taking place in Belarus. In disregard of the Constitutional provisions on freedom of speech and assembly, in many cities around Belarus, mass arbitrary arrests with excessive
Ilmi Umerov, the deputy head of the Mejlis, the main representative organ of the Indigenous Crimean Tatar people was detained on 12 May 2016 following the interview he gave the ATR TV channel on 19 March 2016 in Kyiv. He is charged with “separatism” under Article 280.1 – a new article introduced a few months after
