1. Remarks

   Ukraine: Remarks by High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell following the EU-Ukraine Association Council

   Check against delivery! Good evening, I am happy to welcome Prime Minister [of Ukraine, Denys] Shmyhal to Brussels. Everybody knows that the partnership with Ukraine is one of the most strategically important that we have around the world. And it is very significant for us. It reflects the wide

   Author: EEAS Press Team - Publication date: 11/02/2021

2. Remarks

   Uganda: Speech on behalf of High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell at the EP debate on the political situation in the country

   Speech delivered by Nicolas Schmit, Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights Check against delivery! Madam President, Honourable Members of the European Parliament, Elections took place in Uganda in January and President [of Uganda, Yoweri] Museveni, in power – and as it has been recalled – since

   Author: EEAS Press Team - Publication date: 11/02/2021

3. Remarks

   Rwanda: Speech on behalf of High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell at the EP debate on the case of Paul Rusesabagina

   Speech delivered by Nicolas Schmit, Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights Check against delivery! Mr President, Honourable Members of the European Parliament, Let me start by reassuring you that the High Representative and Vice-President Josep Borrell is well aware of the case of Mr [Paul]

   Author: EEAS Press Team - Publication date: 11/02/2021

4. Remarks

   Kazakhstan: Speech on behalf of High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell at the EP debate on the human rights situation in the country

   Speech delivered by Nicolas Schmit, Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights Check against delivery! Ms President, Honourable Members [of the European Parliament], In March 2020, the EU-Kazakhstan Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement entered into force, providing us with a framework for

   Author: EEAS Press Team - Publication date: 11/02/2021

5. Remarks

   Comments by EU Ambassador Carl Hartzell following the extension of the illegal detention of Zaza Gakheladze, detained at the South Ossetian Administrative Boundary Line on 11 July 2020

   Today, the de facto authorities in the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia have extended the illegal detention of Mr Zaza Gakheladze for a further twelve years and six months.

   Author: Press and information team of the Delegation to GEORGIA - Publication date: 05/02/2021

6. Remarks

   Foreign Affairs Council: Press remarks by High Representative Josep Borrell

   Check against delivery! Good afternoon, Well, to be the first meeting of the year, we have had a very though, heavy agenda. Let me run [you] through our discussion. First, we started with Russia and the events around Alexey Navalny. The Council considered  the arrest of [Mr] Navalny  and crackdown

   Author: EEAS Press Team - Publication date: 25/01/2021

7. Remarks

   Foreign Affairs Council: Remarks by High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell upon arrival

   Check against delivery! Good morning, This is the first Foreign Affairs Council of the year and we are going to have a very dense agenda. I do not know how we are going to do in order to deal with all these issues. First, we will deal with the worrying events in Russia. More than 3,000 people have

   Author: EEAS Press Team - Publication date: 25/01/2021

8. Remarks

   Turkey: Speech on behalf of High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell at the EP debate

   Speech on the human rights situation in Turkey, notably the case of Selahattin Demirtas and other prisoners of conscience, delivered by Helena Dalli, Commissioner for Equality

   Author: EEAS Press Team - Publication date: 21/01/2021

9. Remarks

   Vietnam: Speech on behalf of High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell at the EP debate

   Speech on the human rights situation in Vietnam, in particular the case of human rights journalists Pham Chi Dung, Nguyen Tuong Thuy and Le Huu Minh Tuan, delivered by Helena Dalli, Commissioner for Equality

   Author: EEAS Press Team - Publication date: 21/01/2021

10. Remarks

    Turkey: Remarks by High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell ahead of his meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

    Check against delivery! Good morning to everybody, good morning Minister, dear Mevlüt! I am very pleased to welcome here in Brussels, at the headquarters of the European External Action Service, my colleague and friend, the Turkish Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. We will spend some time taking stock of

    Author: EEAS Press Team - Publication date: 21/01/2021

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