Andrei Yahorau elected Belarusan National Coordinator of the EaP CSF

At the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum which took place in Chişinău new National Coordinator of the EaP CSF was elected.

Chişinău greeted the 5^th annual Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum. More than 250 representatives of the civil society organizations from the six countries of the Eastern Partnership and the EU, as well as the representatives from government, European foundations and donor agencies are participating in the meeting. Their aim is to discuss the priorities of the civil society and its input to the reforming within the frames of the Eastern Partnership.

The representatives of the Belarusan delegation informed EuroBelarus Information Service that Andrei Yahorau was elected Belarusan National Coordinator of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum. Before that this role played Jaraslau Bekish, the member of the Coordination Committee of the EaP CSF, the member of the Steering Committee of the EaP CSF and the leader of the ecological association “Green network”.

On the eve of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum Jaraslau Bekish, who is now already the former National Coordinator of the EaP CSF, talked about the most topical issues Belarusans and their foreign colleagues face during the realization of the joint program.

New Belarusan National Coordinator of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum is the Member of the Board of International Consortium "EuroBelarus" and the Member of the Coordination Committee of the National Platform of the EaP CSF, the Coordinator of the Expert Working Group 1 of the European Dialog on Modernization and the Director of Centre for European Transformation.

Andrei Yahorau was born in 1979 in Grodno. He graduated from the Belarusian State University, law department, political science faculty.

Well-known Belarusian political expert, analyst, researcher. Author of numerous publications and conceptual designs on issues of social and political development of the country, Belarusian-European relations, Eastern Partnership, civil society and others.