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Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas China’s rapid military build-up, coupled with its increasingly assertive behaviour in the Indo-Pacific region and its military activities in the East and South China Seas, as well as its deliberate and repetitive violations of Taiwan’s air defence identification zone and its increasingly aggressive rhetoric and media campaigns, are leading to rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific; sees, however, at the same time the danger that the increasing military presence of the USA and EU in the regions as well as the increasing armament of the USA and the EU member states could lead to an accelerated arms race;

2021/12/21
Committee: AFET

Joachim SCHUSTER, Dietmar KÖSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Calls on the EU to take initiatives to build a system of collective security, including comprehensive arms limitation and disarmament, in the Indo-Pacific region;

2021/12/21
Committee: AFET

Joachim SCHUSTER, Dietmar KÖSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls for the EU and its Members States to step-up their own maritime capacities in the region in a coordinated way, including by exploring ways to ensure a permanent European naval presence in the Indian Ocean; stresses the need to increase the EU’s capacity as an effective maritime security provider; highlights the fact that France is the only Member State with a permanent military presence in the Indian Ocean; welcomes the fact that the Netherlands and Germany have sent frigates to the region; underlines that more such naval missions will be needed in the future; welcomes the joint naval exercises that EUNAFOR Atalanta has thus far undertaken with partner countries, and calls for the EU to consider expanding its geographical scope deeper into the Indian Ocean; invites the EU to establish a maritime area of interest in the Indo-Pacific with a view to extending its Coordinated Maritime Presences concept, building on the Member States’ individual assets;deleted

2021/12/21
Committee: AFET

3 Amendments of Dietmar KÖSTER related to 2021/2232(INI)

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