4 Amendments of Vytautas LANDSBERGIS related to 2012/2145(INI)
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Regrets that despite many calls from international bodies to Russian authorities, no progress was made in investigation of Sergei Magnitsky death, therefore urges Council to impose and implement an EU-wide visa ban on officials responsible for the death of Sergei Magnitsky and to freeze any financial assets they or their immediate family may hold inside the EU;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Remains disappointed about the proceedings against M. Khodorkovsky and P. Lebedev, which internationally are portrayed as being of political nature;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Remains extremely concerned at the lack of democracy, rule of law, fundamental freedoms and the respect for human rights in Belarus, the only European Neighbourhood country not to fully participate in the Eastern Partnership and the work of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, especially in the aftermath of the presidential elections in December 2010 and the subsequent violent crackdown on protesters and political opposition, including trials of activists 2011 which did not conform to international standards and saw disproportionately harsh sentences handed down; commends the EU's unity in response to the expulsion of EU diplomats from Belarus in February 2012; urges the Union and all of its Member States to remain coherent and consistent in their policies towards Belarus, and to keep up the pressure on the political regime, including through sanctions against enlisted officials, while reaching out to civil society through such tools as enhanced visa facilitation and increased education opportunities;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80
Paragraph 80
80. Supports the plans to make further advances in developing rights-based approaches to development cooperation as stated in the EU human rights strategy action plan; emphasises the urgency to do so in the case of children's rights in order to ensure longer-term sustainable progress; notes a need to overview children's rights in a comparison with the principles of human rights, in order to get transparency to what extent those first ones are covered or not by basic human rights;