28 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2018/2040(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 c (new)
Citation 7 c (new)
- having regard to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to the Sustainable Development Goals,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas EU’s Global Strategy reflects the level of today’s global challenges, which require a strong and more efficient UN;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas EU Member States need to make every effort to coordinate their action in the organs and bodies of the United Nations system; whereas this cooperation needs to be based on common efforts to prevent the further escalation of the ongoing conflicts and their solution, to promote effective disarmament and arms control, in particular as nuclear arsenals are concerned, to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and to contribute to a rule-based international order;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the EU and its Member States remain collectively the single largest financial contributor to the UNever growing tasks of the United Nations system demands an adequate financing by its Member States; whereas there is a growing gap between the needs and the provided funding of the organization; whereas in view of the intention of the United States to cut its contributions to the UN budget the EU and its Member States should actively support the UN Secretary-General in his efforts to secure the proper functioning and financing of the United Nations;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the global political order and the security environment are rapidly evolving and require immediate global responses and the setting-up of adequ; whereas the United Nations remain at the core of the multilateral system of cooperation between its Member States tools and mechanism meet these challenges and is best suited to addressing international crises, global challenges and threats;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) to call on the United States as on all other UN Member States, to maintain their financial efforts while increasing effectiveness and efficiency;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) to promote the establishment of an effective system of protection of UN whistle-blowers;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) to call for a comprehensive reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on the basis of a broad consensus in order to better reflect the new world realities; to support the long-term goal of the EU having a seat on a reformed UNSC; to promote the revitalisation of the work of the General Assembly and improved coordination and coherence of the actions of all UN institutions;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point f b (new)
(fb) to advocate the establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) within the UN system in order to increase the democratic character, the democratic accountability and the transparency of global governance and to allow for better citizen participation in the activities of the UN and in particular to contribute to the successful implementation of the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g
Paragraph 1 – point g
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point -p (new)
Paragraph 1 – point -p (new)
-p to express concern at the erosion of the existing arms control and disarmament system and its legal instruments; to support all efforts to putting the arms control and disarmament agenda back on course, including by reviving the Conference on Disarmament; to promote the nuclear non-proliferation through the 2020 review process by bringing the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty in force without delay; to undertake efforts to enforcing the Chemical Weapons Convention and strengthening the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW); to ensure accountability for violations of disarmament and arms control treaties by existing mechanisms of the arms control and disarmament instruments;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p
Paragraph 1 – point p
(p) to systematically support all UN actions related to disarmament, confidence-building, non-proliferation and counter-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point p a (new)
(pa) to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons supported in 2017 by 122 UN Member States and to work for the signing and ratification of this Treaty by all UN Member States;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point r a (new)
(ra) to promote the start of effective negotiations on the prohibition of drones and armed robots in order to stop the on- going development of lethal autonomous weapons;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s h (new)
Paragraph 1 – point s h (new)
(sh) to promote with its own EU initiatives the start of negotiations at the UNHCR in Geneva for an international binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point t a (new)
(ta) to urge all states, including EU Member States, to swiftly ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights establishing complaint and inquiry mechanism;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point t b (new)
(tb) to strengthen the role of the ICC in order to promote accountability and to end impunity; to call on all UN Member States to join the ICC by ratifying the Rome Statute and to encourage the ratification of the Kampala amendments;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t d (new)
Paragraph 1 – point t d (new)
(td) to undertake and support initiatives to counter tax evasion, money laundering and corruption; to support the creation of a democratic, empowered and financed intergovernmental UN tax body that could ensure a voice for developing countries in tax matters; regrets in this context that the current OECD tax committee is not sufficiently inclusive;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u j (new)
Paragraph 1 – point u j (new)
(uj) to stress the importance of media freedom, pluralism, independence and safety of journalists to counter the new challenges; to initiate a debate to find the right balance between protecting media freedom and freedom of expression and the fight against false information;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v
Paragraph 1 – point v
(v) to fully support the UN-led efforts to negotiate two Global Compacts for Migration and on Refugees based on the September 2016 New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants an the corresponding process for developing a global governance regime, for enhancing coordination on international migration, human mobility, large movements of refugees and protracted refugee situations, and for putting in place durable solutions and approaches to clearly outlining the impotence of protecting the rights of refugees and migrants; calls on the EU Member States to unite behind such position and to actively defend and advance the negotiations on this important issues;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point v a (new)
(va) to exercise its influence on those countries, such as the United States, which exit the negotiations on the final Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration to continue to contribute to the solution of the global migration problem;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point w a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point w a (new)
(wa) to support all efforts to ensure robust and sustainable assistance to developing countries that host large numbers of refugees, and to ensuring that refugees are offered durable solutions, including by becoming self-sustainable and being integrated into the communities in which they live; to recall that the implementation of the Global Compact provides a unique opportunity to strengthen the linkage between humanitarian aid and development policies;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point x
Paragraph 1 – point x
(x) to ensure that human rights are put at the core of the Global Compacts; to pay specific attention to migrants in situations of vulnerability, such as children, women at risk, victims of human trafficking or persons with disabilities; to stress the need to fully develop a renewed and horizontal gender perspective for a collective international response to refugees which addresses the specific protection needs of women, including combatting violence against women, and which enhances women's abilities and skills in the reconstruction and reconciliation; to call on the UN Member States to make a standalone commitment to promoting gender equality and empowerment of women and girls as a central element of the Global Compact, in line with SDG 5;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
(xa) to address the widespread phenomenon of statelessness, which poses acute human rights challenges; to ensure that this issue is adequately addressed in the current negotiations on the Global Compact;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point z
Paragraph 1 – point z
(z) to reaffirm the EU’s commitment to the Paris Agreement and to stress the need to implement the Paris Agreement globally to preserve our habitat for future generationsthe UN Agenda 2030, including the SDGs, and it's readiness to implement these agreements by an ambitious climate policy, including efforts to improve the existing Nationally Determined Contributions for 2030; to underline the necessity of developing a long term strategy for 2050 in a timely manner and to support any initiative in this direction;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point z a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point z a (new)
(za) to be a pro-active partner in all UN to foster global partnerships and cooperation on climate change challenges; stresses that climate can be an entry point for diplomatic relations with partners with whom other agenda items are highly contested, thereby offering an opportunity to enhance stability and peace;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point z b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point z b (new)
(zb) to reinforce efforts to re-engage the US in multilateral cooperation on climate change;