7 Amendments of Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN related to 2015/2220(INI)
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Urges the Council, the EEAS and the Commission to prioritise the promotion of democratic transformationand engage proactively with the promotion and reinforcement of democracy, thereby providing a stronger bulwark against internal political, security and economic pressures and challenges;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Regrets that the legal obligations vested in the PCAs to uphold democracy and the rule of law have not been observed in most cases, stresses that, although the PCAs fundamentally focus on trade, the respect for human rights and democracy must be at the core of the European Union strategy vis-a-vis the scope of cooperation envisaged on Partnership and Cooperation Agreements (PCAs) entailing the absolute application of the human rights and democracy clause, with the exception of limited and fragile progress in Kyrgyzstan;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Deplores the ongoing Uzbek Government forced drafts of Uzbeks citizens, including the use of child labour, to work in abusive conditions in the cotton harvests, constraining the basic personal free will and freedoms;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Considers education a crucial integrational pillar and a democratic, economic and social development enabler for all countries of Central Asia; urges the European Union, within the scope of the existing PCAs, to launch or reinforce educational programmes, as Erasmus +, that will promote a positive mobility to all EU and Central Asian students;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Notes with concern that in addition to increasing climate change impacts, multiple alarming environmental challenges inherited from the Soviet period persist, such as those relating to an unmonitored and ongoing nuclear contamination in the past decades, and the urgent action of cleaning up nuclear testing sites, industrial and mining activities, unsustainable exploitation of natural resources, land degradation, air pollution, desertification, and, above all, continued catastrophic water mismanagement; urges the Commission, in this respect, to step up technical assistance and provide European know-how and best practice as to how to deal with these problems;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Is concerned that stalled and uneven socio-economic development, the lack of state transparency and consequent corruption, poor governance and a weak institutional framework, lack of respect for rule of law; unresolved ethnic issues and lack of prospects for orderly succession in the countries of Central Asia are sources of potential instability;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Supports the EU’s long-term goal of transforming the nascent EU-Central Asia High Level Security Dialogue into a genuine cooperative forum aimed at cooperation in addressing common security challenges; highlights the importance and positive impact of regional cooperation programs as the Border Management Programme in Central Asia (BOMCA) and the Central Asia Drug Action Programme (CADAP);