API Forum Shared Principles: 

• Acknowledging the Council of Europe as a Human Rights organization fostering education for democracy, protection of minority rights and international understanding.
• Maintaining a positive and constructive attitude vis-a-vis the work of the Council of Europe in presentations and publications.
• Recognizing that the mission of the CEFR and CEFR Companion Volume is to further plurilingual and intercultural quality education for all.
• Recognizing the positive contribution of the CEFR and CEFR Companion Volume to making language education more transparent, coherent and inclusive.
• Supporting action-oriented / action-based teaching and learning.
• Adopting the plurilingual paradigm in their research and/or publications.
• Understanding the need to counteract the increasingly monolingual and monocultural tendency of research, teaching, publications and dissemination activities.

Since API Forum represents a Human Rights-oriented Council of Europe / United Nations view of the world, in alignment with this underlying vision and mission, it condemns any violation of Human Rights, including any form of genocide, ethnic cleansing and ecocide.