Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2023

Tabled by Reinhard Bütikofer

… that the EU’s ‘One China policy’ remains a cornerstone of EU-China relations; Removed: reaffirms the EU’s commitment to Added: reiterates its condemnation of China’s violation of its international commitments, its breaches of the Sino-British and Sino-Portuguese Joint Declarations, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the ‘one country, two systems’ principle and Removed: condemns any possible violations of it; reiterates its condemnation of the Chinese Communist Party’s undermining of democracy in the Hong Kong Removed: Special Administrative Region, including mass surveillance, the continued deterioration of fundamental human rights and the imposition of the National Security Law in Hong Kong; Added: Basic Law as well as the crackdown on the special administrative region’s autonomy and opposition figures, including members of civil society and their family members; calls on the Commission to assess the autonomous status of Hong Kong Added: and Macao in light of China’s breaches of the Sino-British and Sino-Portuguese Joint Declarations …

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE756.724