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13 Amendments of Alf SVENSSON related to 2009/2217(INI)

Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the international community has implicitly recognised that nine years of war and international involvement haves not yet succeeded in eliminating the Taliban insurgency and bringing peace and stability to the country,
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas, with regard to the EU aid contribution to Afghanistan, Carl Bildt, in his capacity as Council President, stated before Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs in December 2009 that "We have no idea what the Union as a collectivity is doing in Afghanistan... We are spending more than a billion euros a year..., virtually uncoordinated",deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Strongly believes that women's rights are part of the security solution – it is impossible to achieve stability in Afghanistan without women enjoying their full rights in political, social and economic life; calls on the Afghan authorities to include women in every stage of the peace talks and reconciliation/reintegration efforts;
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that the cost of eliminating poverty in Afghanistan is equivalent to the cost of five days of warfare;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Notes, too, that the cost of waging war for one week would provide 6 000 schools, enough to ensure a future without illiteracy for all children in Afghanistan;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Recognises the potential for local corruption but believes that this will be outweighed by the strengthened legitimacyand affirms that one of the goals of the international involvement is that the Afghan State will gain by beingbe responsible for implementing aid and by ensuring that aide effectiveness indicators andof the aid; notes that this is to take place through effective monitoring mechanisms, agreed upon by both donors and the Afghan Government, are in place;
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Notes that, as widely reported in the press and in the US House of Representatives report "Warlord, Inc.", the US military in Afghanistan has outsourced most of its logistics to private contractors, who in turn subcontract the protection of military convoys to local Afghan security providers, with disastrous consequences;
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Is equally appalled by the fact that, since US and NATO military logistics follow similar lines, European taxpayers could end up funding the Taliban through the very entities that are supposed to combat them;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Urges, therefore, NATO and all coalition forces in Afghanistan to return to a situation whereby they provide their own military supply chain, as soon as practicable;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. Believes, too, that all other that when the Afghan State has shown capacity to take responsibility for the entire country and when stability and prosperity have been consolidated, more and more issues should be left to the will and capacity of the Afghan people themselves;
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
45. Stresses, too, that these resources belong exclusively to the people of Afghanistan, and that "protection" of these assets can never be used as an excuse for the permanent presence of foreign troops on Afghan soil;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
51. Believes that one of the main factors behind the ineffectiveness of overall training has been the practice, predominantly by the US, of relying on private contractors to train the police;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59
59. Notes, however, that the opium problem was not considered a priority by the Bush Administration, which preferred to cooperate with the warlords in the name of the war on terrorduction is still a major problem, and calls on the EU to assist in making the Afghan economy less dependent on the production of opium, for example by abolishing EU export subsidies, which have led to the dumping of EU products on other non-EU countries' markets by making local agricultural products uncompetitive and manufactured industrial goods uneconomical;
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET