15 Amendments of Ilhan KYUCHYUK related to 2021/2230(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
— having regard to its recommendation of 19 June 2020 on the Eastern Partnership, in the run-up to the June 2020 Summit,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas since the collapse of the Soviet Unionover more than three decades, the Nagorno-Karabakh war and the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan have resulted in tens of thousands of casualties, immense destruction and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas periodical deadly military confrontations between Azerbaijan and Armenia continue; whereas the 9 November 2020 ceasefire agrestatement, introduced after the 44-day war triggered by Azerbaijan in 2020, has been violated several times resulting in more casualties;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas Russian peacekeeping forces were deployed along the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh and along the Lachin Corridor following the 2020 war with a 5-year stabilisation mandate but have failed to act on several occasions to stop the break-out of hostilities;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas on 20 October 2022 the EU dispatched a temporary civilian monitoring mission, called EU Monitoring Capacity, on the Armenian side of the internationally recognized border between Armenia and Azerbaijan;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas Russia’s militarywar of aggression against Ukraine has had implications for the South Caucasus and has further complicated the security situation in the region;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict, which over the years has caused immense suffering and destruction, has significantly hampered the socio-economic development and stability of the whole South Caucasus region; is convinced that a durable and sustainable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan cannot be achieved through military means and the threat of use of force but requires a comprehensive political settlement in accordance with international law, including the principles enshrined in the UN Charter, the 1975 OSCE Helsinki Final Act and the OSCE Minsk Group’s 2009 Basic Principles;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. To achieve lasting peace and reconciliation, calls on Armenia and Azerbaijan to set up a transitional justice mechanism or truth commission, which the EU could support and help facilitate in conjunction with other bodies such as the ICRC or OSCE, to look into all alleged crimes committed during the armed conflict starting in 1988 until now; such a mechanism could include members of academia, independent journalists and civil society activists with a mandate to establish the fate of missing persons, repatriation of prisoners of war, and invest in establishing historical truths, eliminate hateful narratives and build trust between the two nations;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that the EU’s passive stance during and immediately after the 2020 war gave other regional actors, such as Russia and Turkey, the opportunity to gain influence; strongly supports, therefore, the initiative taken by the President of the European Council Charles Michel to convene and mediate bilateral meetings of the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Brussels and encourages the work on the ground of the EU’s special representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia; highlights the importance of continued close engagement by the EU and the EU-led mediation format in order to prevent further attacks and bring a peaceful resolution of the conflict; urges the governments of both countries to fully engage in the drafting of a peace treaty and welcomes in this regard the meetings of the foreign affairs ministers of both countries;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes note of the initial discussions on the process of border delimitation; welcomes the agreement to deploy a civilian EU mission to build trust and contribute to the border commissionscalls for the demarcation process to be internationally facilitated by the EU and/or OSCE in order to ensure credibility, fairness and sustainability;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Welcomes the deployment of the EU Monitoring Capacity to Armenia to build trust and contribute to the border commissions, especially welcomes the approach to transfer EU monitoring experts from the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia as a timely and experience-sharing solution; calls for extending the mandate of the EU Monitoring Capacity, making it permanent and increasing significantly the number of monitors so that it can effectively perform its monitoring, confidence-building, and stabilisation functions along the border between the two countries;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for granting of access to international humanitarian organisations, especially the United Nations, to Nagorno-Karabakh and recalls that currently only the ICRC is allowed access to the region, which is insufficient to accurately assess the conditions and needs of the population residing there;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Notes Iran's interest in preventing the construction of new transport communications linking the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic with the western regions of Azerbaijan, as agreed in the ceasefire statement of 9 November, which, if succeeded, would have a significant impact on the prospects of a peace agreement; draws the attention of the Armenian authorities to the risks of cooperating with the Iranian authoritarian regime, which, amongst other crimes and violations, is the supplier of the military equipment that is used by Russia in the war of aggression against Ukraine;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Highlights in particular the need for stronger action in the area of judicial reform and fight against corruption, including to ensure a balanced mechanism for the election of key judicial positions, to carry out non-politicised and merit-based vetting of the judiciary through a professional commission, consisting of legal experts nominated by different institutions and representatives of civil society, to develop a new anti- corruption reform strategy and action plan in line with recommendations by OECD and the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), to publicise the concluding part of the Corruption Prevention Commission’s (CPC) decisions regarding the integrity checks of candidates for judges and candidates for key public positions, to introduce a comprehensive electronic procurement system with an independent verification mechanism to check the profiles of participants in tenders, beneficial owners and (possible) cases of conflict of interest, to provide the CPC with access to the electronic procurement system in order to scrutinise for conflict of interests and affiliations with public officials;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Calls for advancing discussions on an EU-Armenia visa liberalisation scheme to support people-to-people contacts, closer bilateral ties, and reform progress;