and other violations of international law, including at least one Arria-formula meeting of the UN Security Council; would welcome it if the EU institutions and the Member States were to consider commemorating 1 July as ‘Stand with Hong Kong Day’ in order to raise the European public’s awareness of the situation in Hong Kong each year; reiterates its call for the EU and the Member States to consider filing a case before the International Court of Justice asserting that China’s decision to impose the NSL on Hong Kong and its application violate the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the ICCPR; 25. Deplores the decision by the Hong Kong police to ban the annual 4 June Tiananmen Square vigil and the annual 1 July march while granting special permission for the waiving of COVID-19 restrictions to allow Hong Kong officials to celebrate the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party; 26. Calls on the VP/HR to cooperate closely with like-minded countries and partners to halt the erosion of Hong Kong’s freedoms; welcomes the newly established bilateral EU-US dialogue on China, and insists that stronger coordination on human rights, including with a focus on the situation in Hong Kong, should be a key objective; 27. Observes that the PRC’s policy of abandoning the ‘one country, two systems’ approach has greatly alienated the people of Taiwan, and emphasises its willingness to cooperate with international partners in order to help secure democracy in Taiwan; 28. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the VicePresident of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Government and Parliament of the People’s Republic of China, and the Chief Executive and the Assembly of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.