| PERSEUS Pilot Case |
| West Black Sea |
| Acronym |
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| Full name |
| The Community of Democratic Choice |
| Scale |
| Black Sea |
| Objectives |
| Is an intergovernmental organization established on December 2, 2005 by nine states of Northern and Eastern Europe in Kiev. Its main task is to promote democracy, human rights and the rule of law in that region. The effectiveness and strength of that organization is, however, disputed. The creation of the Community itself was foreshadowed by the Borjomi Declaration of August 2005, a joint statement signed by the Presidents of Georgia and Ukraine, Mikheil Saakashvili and Viktor Yushchenko, which envisioned the Community as a "powerful instrument for removing the remaining divisions in the Baltic-Black Sea region, human rights violations, and any type of confrontation, or frozen conflict.” [1]
The Community of Democratic Choice was then created in Kiev during a two-day forum aimed at promoting democracy and human rights in the wider region of the Baltic-Black-Caspian Seas. Besides the presidents of the nine founding states, there were delegations from Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland and also observers from the United States, the European Union and the OSCE. |
| What types of strategies have been implemented to reach these objectives |
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| Spatial/geographic delimitation |
| Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Slovenia, Ukraine |
| Link to MSFD GES Descriptor |
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| Does it apply an ecosystem based approach? |
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| Does the institution make use of adaptive policy initiatives? |
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| Do any plans (or discussion) exist to update/change this institution? |
| NO |
| Link to website |
| Link |
| Additional information |
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