Tbilisi. Georgian Civil Society Organisations address to the EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Mr. Štefan Fule. "In recent years, Mr Thomas Hammarberg has made an outstanding impact in his capacity as EU Special Advisor on Legal and Constitutional Reform and Human Rights in Georgia. ...It recently became known to the civil society organisations that soon after the EU-Georgia Association Agreement is signed, Mr. Hammarberg will no longer be advising the Georgian Government. ...The undersigning civil society organisations would like to urge the European Commission and Commissioner Fule to prolong Mr. Hammarberg's mission by extending the EU grant to the Office of the Public Defender's Office through which the performance of his mandate has been possible. This will be one of the most important steps undertaken by the EU in assisting Georgia's democratic transformation and harmonisation into the European space".

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