15 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2016/2020(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the EU’s commitment to effective multilateralism, with the UN at its core, is an integral part of the EU’s external policy and is rooted in the conviction that a multilateral system founded on universal rules and valueslaid down in international law and the balancing of interests for mutual benefit is best suited to address global crises, challenges and threats;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the EU and its Member States should play a proactive part in building a United Nations that can fulfil its central role in the international community even in changed geopolitical circumstances and effectively contribute to integrated global solutions, peace and security, human rights, democracy and, a rule-of-law-based international order and environmentally, economically and socially sustainable development through the expansion of social security systems, full employment, decent work and the enforcement of the rights laid down in the Social Pact;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the EU’s securitypolitical environment is increasingly unstable and volatile owing to a large number of longstanding or newly emerging challenges, including violent conflicts,growing diversity in approaches to political issues worldwide, increasingly confrontational multipolarity, the hollowing-out of the powers of global institutions and of their ability to act as a result of an increase in the number of informal alliances, forums and negotiating formations, continuing extremely unequal development opportunities and the ongoing exclusion of large sections of the world population from employment and access to social services, warlike conflicts and militarisation, the illegal use of force and terrorism, organised crime, unprecedented migration waves and climate change, which are impossible to address at national level and require regional and global responses; based on cooperation among all the States concerned;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph - a (new)
Paragraph - a (new)
(-a) to take active steps to ensure that all parties directly or indirectly involved in armed conflicts and their organisations comply in full with their international obligations and the standards laid down in international law and make efforts to secure peaceful, diplomatic solutions to conflicts of all kinds; urges that this should also cover the obligation to grant people in need access to humanitarian aid;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph a
Paragraph a
(a) to continue to support multilateral attempts to find lasting political solutions to ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa, in particular in Syria, Libya and Yemen; to continue to support the work of the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Syria, the Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, and the Special Envoy of the Un Secretary-General for Yemen; to call for continued humanitarian, financial and political assistance from the international community in order to address the humanitarian situation, above all in the many refugee camps in the region, to help maintain social stability in the host countries concerned, to prevent those countries from being dragged into major conflicts and to work towards the immediate cessation of violence;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph d
Paragraph d
(d) to promote a culture of prevention within the UN system in order to improve its capacity to respond more promptly to emerging crises and potential threats to peace and security; to strive to enhance early communication and further develop procedures for crisis consultation between the EU and the UN in order to better coordinate their crisis response, avoiding unnecessary duplication;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph s
Paragraph s
(s) to further work towards the universal abolition of the death penalty, leading the way towardsexploit the existing political momentum in the form of growing support in the international community, including States in Africa and Asia, for the abolition of the death penalty and to work to secure its universal abolition, e.g. through the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and at the same time to call for the adoption of the nexta UN General Assembly resolution on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty as a further step towards its universal abolition;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph u
Paragraph u
(u) to strengthen the universality of the Rome Statute and the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the international criminal justice system, as regards criminal prosecution in the context of its subject-matter, personal, temporal and territorial jurisdiction, and the international criminal justice system, e.g. by strengthening the principle of complementarity, in order to promote accountability and to end impunity;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph v a (new)
Paragraph v a (new)
(va) welcomes the decision taken by the UN General Assembly in February 2015 to set up an ad hoc committee on the prompt, orderly and effective restructuring of sovereign debt where debt overhangs and debt crises are undermining the efforts to achieve the SDGs; welcomes at the same time, as a first important sign of progress towards a corresponding multilateral mechanism, the basic principles on sovereign debt restructuring processes adopted by the General Assembly in September 2015; regards the current deep disagreement in the EU and its Member States on this issue as an obstacle to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and urges the EU and its Member States to overcome their disagreement and participate actively, constructively and on the basis of a common position in the ongoing process of developing and adopting the desired legal framework; calls, further, on the Member States to address the issue of debt in the post-2015 process, including at the post-2015 UN summit, with a view to improving the conditions for achieving Target 8.D of the UN Millennium Development Goals;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph v b (new)
Paragraph v b (new)
(vb) to take active steps to improve political oversight in the area of sustainable development, by strengthening the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and to take up the proposal to establish an International Criminal Court for environmental crimes with the aim of enforcing environmental law more effectively worldwide;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph v c (new)
Paragraph v c (new)
(vc) in the context of the UN, to promote international cooperation on financial services, e.g. through the setting-up of a permanent UN forum on financial services and a permanent international tribunal for financial services (ITFS), so that misconduct complaints can be brought against financial service providers;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph v d (new)
Paragraph v d (new)
(vd) to take active steps to develop further the UN 'Respect, Protect and Remedy' Framework and its 'Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights' and, within the UN system, to develop an additional, binding, global agreement on corporate responsibility (A/HRC/26/9), which is vitally needed in order to address the challenges arising out of the globalisation of trade and production chains and should be based on established human rights, including core ILO labour standards; in that context, to advocate the implementation of the decision taken by the UN Human Rights Council in 20141a to set up an open-ended international working group on the drafting of a corresponding set of binding instruments; __________________ 1a A/HRC/26/L.22/Rev.1
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph x
Paragraph x
(x) to support actively a comprehensive reform of the United Nations Security Council; to promote and, in that connection, to work to bring about the gradual extension of the consensus principle to all members of the Security Council and the transfer of final decision-making powers in respect of certain matters currently subject to veto - such as the deployment of UN peacekeepers - to the General Assembly; to promote actively the existing, wide- ranging UN reform agenda designed to bring about, in addition to the revitalisation of the work of the General Assembly, andmore effective working methods, for example by means of improved coordination and coherence of the action of all UN institutions, which should enhance the efficiency, effectiveness, transparency, accountability, capacity and representativeness of the system; to support and build on the increased transparency in the process for the selection of the next UN Secretary- G and a strengthening of the role of existing regional organisations, sub-organisations and bodies with special status in making their own specific contributions to the achievement of the objectives laid down in the UN Charter, which should enhance the efficiency, effectiveness, transparency, accountability, capacity and representativeness of the system; looking ahead to the selection of the next UN Secretary-General in 2017, to support actively the proposals made by the States behind the ACT Initiative for a revised selection process, the criteria for which should be transparent and inclusive vis-à- vis the UN member states, civil society, the public and the media, offer clear alternatives in the form of a choice of candidates, foster genderal, wi parity and provide for the candidates’ to presentations being made themselves in the General Assembly;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph x a (new)
Paragraph x a (new)
(xa) to call for the United Nations to be given an active role in all multilateral decision-making forums, in particular the G7 and the G20, in keeping with its central role in the international community;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph x b (new)
Paragraph x b (new)
(xb) to take up the suggestion made by many international organisations, international NGOs and international networks, which, in the light of their long experience with the 'Arria formula' in the context of the work of the UN Security Council, are calling for social actors to be granted a mandatory general right to be represented when matters which affect them directly are discussed at the UN;