12 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2012/2036(INI)
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
(ha) to actively pursue the call for the establishment of a parliamentary assembly at the United Nations, first made by the European Parliament in 1993 and last reiterated in 2010, and to table a debate on the implementation of this demand during the forthcoming UN General Assembly;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) to help revitalise the UNGA, inter alia by supporting the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group, by facilitating more in- depth and result-oriented thematic debates on topical, important issues, and through closer engagement of the UNGA with other stakeholders, including civil society and other international and regional organisations; to stress the need for further streamlining the agendas of the UNGA and its main committees;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) to advance cooperation and build partnerships in the area of conflict prevention and civilian and military crisis management with the UN, the OSCE, the African Union (AU), the Arab League and other international and regional organisations, as well as with civil society; to improve regional organisations’ peace- building capacities, inter alia through the proposed EU–UN–AU and EU–UN– ECOWAS tri-partnerships;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l
Paragraph 1 – point l
(l) to promote the collaboration of different actors in the peace-building architecture, notably between the UN Secretariat, the UNSC, the UNGA, and the UN member states involved in peace-building missions; to pursue efforts to ensure that EU Member States contribute to UN peace missions with special capacities, such as transport and logistics, and training; to consider the option of launching a military operation under CSDP including the possible deployment of a battle group to precede a UN peace mission if requested by the UN on the basis of Chapter VI of the United Nations Charter; to support the development of conflict management capacity at national and subnational levels;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n
Paragraph 1 – point n
(n) to focus on the need to ensure the participation of women at all stages of peace processes and to systematically engage them in preventive diplomacy, early warning and security monitoring; actively to seek the implementation of Resolution 1325 of the UN Security Council by all Member States of the United Nations;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o
Paragraph 1 – point o
(o) to contribute to the successful outcome of and follow-up to the 2012 UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty and the 2012 Review Conference on the Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons; and to work to ensure that key decisions are reached in negotiations in line with UN procedure, that a consensus is achieved if, after thorough consultation, a large majority agrees to work to ensure that the Arms Trade Treaty sets the highest possible legally binding common international standards for the approval and control of the import, export and transfer of weapons, their financing and licensing, that all types of conventional weapons and their individual components are encompassed in the Treaty and that a strong revision mechanism is put in place to enable new types of weapons to be included;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point o a (new)
(oa) to take active steps to ensure that the conference planned by the UN for this year on a weapons of mass destruction free zone in the Middle East is convened promptly and that all the countries in the region, the EU, the USA, the Russian Federation and other interested international players work in harmony together with the intermediary appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations in order successfully to prepare the conference;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v
Paragraph 1 – point v
(v) to strengthen international efforts aimed at ensuring that allthe human rights agreed within the framework of the United Nations Conventions are considered universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated; to help strengthen national capacities to deliver on international human rights obligations;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point ab
Paragraph 1 – point ab
(ab) to focus on social and economic inclusion, democratic transition and political/electoral processes, capacity- building, the strengthening of civil society, the participation of young people in parliamentary democracy and the improvement of women’sguaranteeing of equality for women and the greater promotion of their rights;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point ad a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point ad a (new)
(ad a) to make a decisive contribution to the fight against food speculation and to solving the urgent problem of poverty and hunger;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point ae a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point ae a (new)
(ae a) to seek an improvement in political control in the area of sustainable development by strengthening the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) within the UN system and actively to take up at a political level the proposal for the establishment of an international criminal court for crimes against the environment with the aim of improving the worldwide enforcement of environmental policy legislation;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point ae b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point ae b (new)
(ae b) to play an active role in ensuring that the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development being held in Rio de Janeiro can be concluded with specific agreed goals and measures for a binding sustainability agenda and a responsible environmental policy for the coming decade;