Eastern Partnership and Civil Society
Guests:
Kakha Gogolashvili – head of the Georgian-European center of low and politics.
Malkhaz Saldadze – Open Society foundation in Georgia, civil society support program coordinator.
Gia Nodia- head of the Caucasus Institute for peace, democracy and development.
Topics:
Participants spoke about the Partnership, about what this partnership means, its aim and what kind of opportunities it offers to the 6 member countries – Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Belarus and Ukraine. Guests also spoke about the Civil Society forum held in Brussels in the frame of the Eastern Partnership, about its goals and programmes. As it was mentioned, this program mainly aims at supporting the dialogue between civil society organizations of different countries and their governments.
Members of civil society organisations from EU countries participated in the forum.
Civil Society members expressed their point of views on their hope of getting closer to Europe.







