Activities of María MUÑIZ DE URQUIZA related to 2013/2034(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT with a proposal for a European Parliament recommendation to the Council on the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly PDF (202 KB) DOC (106 KB)
Amendments (24)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
– having regard to its recommendation to the Council of 18 April 2013 on the UN principle of the 'Responsibility to Protect' ('R2P')1, _____________ 1 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2013)0180.
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 11 May 2011 on the EU as a global actor: its role in multilateral organisations1, _____________ 1 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2011)0229.
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 b (new)
Citation 6 b (new)
– having regard to the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, adopted on 31 October 2000,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
– having regard to the UN General Assembly resolution 58/4 of 31 October 2003, which adopted the United Nations Convention against Corruption,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 b (new)
Citation 7 b (new)
– having regard to the Council Decision 2011/168/CFSP of 21 March 2011 on the International Criminal Court and repealing Common Position 2003/444/CFSP,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) to advance effective multilateralism by enhancing the representativeness, transparency, accountability, efficiency and effectiveness of the UN, with the aim of improving its delivery on the ground; to recall the need to strike a new institutional balance between the emerging role of the G-20, the UN and its agencies as well as the IFIs; in this regard, to urge the EU and its Member States to enhance global governance and to seek solutions to further improve coordination between the G formations and the UN system, whereby the economic dimension could usefully be covered by these groups, provided that the UN maintains its central role and remains the legitimate body for global action;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) to support a comprehensive and consensual reform of the UN Security Council (UNSC); to stress that an EU seat in an enlarged UNSC remains a central, long-term goal of the EU; to further promote transparency and better coordination of policies and positions amongst EU members of the UNSC; calls on the VP/HR to take the initiative to develop a common position of the Member States to that end;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
(ha) to focus on the need to mainstream gender perspectives in relation to conflict prevention, peace negotiations and agreements, peacekeeping operations, humanitarian assistance, post-conflict reconstruction and DDR initiatives as stated on the UNSCR 1325/2000 on Women Peace and Security; to engage them in preventive diplomacy, early warning and security monitoring;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) to cooperate in strengthening the role of regional organisations in peacekeeping, conflict prevention, civilian and military crisis management, and conflict resolution; to foster joint assessment missions and intto strengthen cooperactions by the African Union and the EUetween the EU and its partners (including the African Union and sub-regional organisations, NATO, OSCE, ASEAN, CELAC, Arab League...etc) in preventing conflict and in post-conflict countries;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
(ia) to assure that peacekeeping missions' mandates reflect the need to support electoral observation missions and to provide them with the necessary means to ensure the security of the observers on the ground;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
(ib) to work towards establishing the Responsibility to Protect as a new norm of international law, within the scope agreed to by UN member states in the 2005 World Summit;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j
Paragraph 1 – point j
(j) to work with partners to ensure that the conceptfollow-up on the Parliament's proposals in its recommendation to the Council on the UN principle of the r'Responsibility to pProtect' ('R2P') and to work with partners to ensure that the concept of R2P focuses on prevention, protection and post-conflict reconstruction involving situations of concern of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes or crimes against humanity, but is never used as a pretext to advance particular or national interests, or those of international coalitions based on geostrategic or economic considerations with the aim of regime change; to assist states in building capacities to this effect; _____________ 1 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2013)0180.
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point j a (new)
(ja) to strengthen the EU's role as a global political actor by playing an active role in preventive diplomacy;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point j b (new)
(jb) to better cooperate and train EU and Member States' delegations and embassies staff in international human rights and humanitarian law and to further professionalise and strengthen preventive diplomacy and mediation;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n
Paragraph 1 – point n
(n) to work closely with partners towards achieving an Arms Trade Treaty that sets the highest common standards for the regulation of the international trade in arms and the combatielcome the adoption by the UNGA of an Arms Trade Treaty on 2 April 2013 which contains strong parameters on international humanitarian or human rights law and will apply to a wide range of illicit trafficking, thus reducing human suffering and improving international peace and securityarms, including ammunition; to actively support the swift entry into force and effective implementation of the ATT by all UN member states;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point n a (new)
(na) to increase its efforts for multilateral commitments to reduce the number of nuclear weapons;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o
Paragraph 1 – point o
(o) to strengthen international efforts aimed at ensuring that all human rights agreed under UN conventions are considered universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated and that their respect is being enforced; to promote the mainstreaming of human rights in all aspects of the UN's work;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point r a (new)
(ra) to advance universal support for the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court by promoting the widest possible participation in it among all Member and Non-Member Observer States in the UN;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point r b (new)
(rb) to work towards a strengthening of the working capacities of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in order to reduce impunity for crimes against humanity;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r c (new)
Paragraph 1 – point r c (new)
(rc) to promote the inclusion of crimes against the environment as a crime against humanity; to promote the building up of a judicial framework sanctioning crimes against the environment;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point t a (new)
(ta) to recall that corruption is a violation of human rights and that the European Union has claimed an exclusive competence for the signature of the UN Convention against Corruption; to request the HR/VP to present an EU Action Plan against corruption to effectively monitor the Convention recommendations, such as Member States' obligations to publish and disseminate information on corruption; to establish channels for reporting these violations, a legal framework for the protection of witnesses and the participation of civil society;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point v a (new)
(va) to increase its efforts for the adoption of a binding worldwide climate agreement at the COP22 in 2015;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point x a (new)
(xa) to support the UNGA President's initiative to address civil society on post- 2015 Development agenda by organizing a special event on the achievement of the Millennium Development goals (MDGs) to be held during the 68th session of UNGA in 2013, as an important point of civil society consultation, as this event could serve to unite the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and post-2015 development process into a "common track";
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Instructs its President to forward this recommendation to the Council, the HR/VP, and the EU Special Representative for Human Rights and, for information, the Commission.