{"id":1567,"date":"2020-08-26T09:17:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T07:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2020-08-26T09:19:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T07:19:06","slug":"joint-statement-to-european-governments-ahead-of-the-european-council-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"Joint Statement to European Governments ahead of the European Council Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the violent crackdown on protestors after the allegedly fraudulent elections of 9 August in Belarus, the <a href=\"https:\/\/epd.eu\/\">European Partnership for Democracy<\/a> (EPD), of which elbarlament is a member, issued a statement regarding the situation in the country ahead of the European Council Summit on Belarus, which took place on 19 August 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The statement, which was signed by elbarlament and other EPD members, called on EU Member States and EU institutions to (1) support democratic processes in the country; (2) condemn the human rights violations and support processes that ensure the accountability for these violations; (3) call for the release and rehabilitation of all those detained for exercising their right to freedom of expression, freedom of assembly among other human rights; (4) call for free and fair elections in Belarus in accordance with international standards and with the presence of international observers; (5) apply targeted sanctions, travel bans and asset freezes to those individuals responsible for fraud in the 9 August election and the repression which followed; (6) offer protection for those individuals facing persecution through the provision of free Schengen visas and\/ or temporary humanitarian visas; and lastly, (7) provide flexible and speedy funding to the Belarusian civil society.<\/p>\n<p>The entire joint statement can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/epd.eu\/2020\/08\/24\/statement-to-european-governments-ahead-of-european-council-summit\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the violent crackdown on protestors in Belarus, the European Partnership for Democracy issued a statement regarding the situation in the country ahead of the European Council Summit on Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}