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Statement օf the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum Armenian National Facilitator Hovsep Khurshudyan on the Upcoming Election of the Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia
In a few days, the RA National Assembly will elect a new Human Rights Defender. Emphasizing the important role of the RA HRD in the protection of people's rights in Armenia, including from state bodies, and based on the imperative that the Human rights defender should not be constrained by his/her party affiliation immediately before [...]
EaP CSF Statement of the Co-Chairs of the Steering Committee on the situation in the Lachin corridor
23 December 2022, Brussels For more than a week the situation in the Lachin corridor remains extremely tense and complicated. A group of Azerbaijani citizens who call themselves ecological activists have blocked the Goris-Stepanakert highway, the only road connecting Nagorni Karabakh with Armenia and the outer world. Throughout the past days, the statements of the [...]
Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum’s Armenian National Platform Statement on Azerbaijan’s closure of the Lachin corridor and creating a humanitarian disaster in Artsakh
December 17, 2022 The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum’s Armenian National Platform (hereinafter, EaP CSF ANP) strongly condemns Azerbaijan's blockade of the only road connecting Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) with Armenia and the world on December 12, which was followed by the closure of natural gas supply to Artsakh. As a result of this new blockade, thousands [...]
PRESS RELEASE. The 14th Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum’s Annual Assembly
December 08, 2022, Yerevan On December 5-7, the 14th Annual Assembly entitled “Resilient Civil Society for a more Ambitious Eastern Partnership” was held in Prague, which brought together more than 200 civil society organizations from the EaP and the EU countries, as well as EaP and EU decision-makers to discuss the current challenges, the landscape [...]
EASTERN PARTNERSHIP CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM’S ARMENIAN NATIONAL PLATFORM STATEMENT ON THE NECESSITY FOR ARMENIA TO LEAVE THE COLLECTIVE SECURITY TREATY ORGANISATION
November 22, 2022, Yerevan The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum’s Armenian National Platform (hereinafter, EaP CSF ANP) expresses its deep concern related to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (hereinafter, CSTO) upcoming meeting on November 23, 2022, in Yerevan.Recent geopolitics and regional developments have shown that CSTO actions do not respond to the security challenges of [...]
PRESS RELEASE. Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum’s Armenian National Platform’s Annual Assembly
November 28, 2022, Yerevan On November 26, the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum’s Armenian National Platform’s Annual Assembly took place at the Confederation of the RA Trade Union. The platform’s national facilitator Hovsep Khurshudyan presented the work he has done in recent months towards the formation of the Platform’s NGO, the activities carried out jointly [...]
SEVERAL CIVIL AND POLITICAL FORCES IN ARMENIA DEMAND ARMENIA’S WITHDRAWAL FROM CSTO
On September 26, 2022 a number of civil and political forces of Armenia organized a campaign in front of the building of the RA Foreign Ministry demanding the withdrawal of Armenia from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). In a letter-demand presented to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the participants of the action demanded from [...]
STATEMENT OF THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM’S ARMENIAN NATIONAL PLATFORM ON THE CONDEMNATION OF RACIST ACTIONS OF AZERBAIJAN AGAINST THE REPUBLIC OF ARTSAKH (NAGORNO KARABAKH) AND THE NECESSITY TO RESTORE ARMENIAN TOPONYMS ON THE “GOOGLE MAPS” PLATFORM
21 September 2022, Yerevan In the autumn of 2020, in violation of the 1st and the 33rd Articles of the United Nations Charter on Peaceful Settlement of international disputes, the Republic of Azerbaijan unleashed a war against the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). With the support of Turkey and the involvement of Syrian mercenaries, Azerbaijan [...]