5 Amendments of Maurice PONGA related to 2009/2213(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Article 1
Article 1
1. Asks the European Union and the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries to redirect their cooperation towards human rights protection as a solution to the crisis, including the three categories of fundamental rights: political, environmental and cultural rightsstep up cooperation in the political, economic, social and cultural fields; considers that a useful tool for overcoming the crisis could be gradual and reciprocal trade liberalisation that took the inequalities between the two regions into account; also reiterates that respect for fundamental human rights must always be present in any form of cooperation between the two;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Article 3
Article 3
3. Calls for an acknowledgement of the Union’s ecological debt to the LAC countries, and for the EU to support the developthe EU to support the LAC countries in developing environment ofal projects such as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative launched by the Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, provided that it does not damage the surrounding environment or infringe the rights of those living there;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Article 4
Article 4
4. Calls for the fight against climate change to become a key focus of the EU-LAC strategy; suggests developing a new economic model based onessential measures such as the conservation of forests and natural resources and on sustainable agriculture;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Article 5
Article 5
5. Calls for the recognition of food sovereignty and an end to policies involving the exploitation of natural resources for export; calls, therefore, for an end to major hydraulic engineering, mining and forestry projects, biopiracy and the appropriation of land (especially for the purpose of producing biofuels, which are not a sustainable solution to climate change)for the LAC countries;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Article 7
Article 7
7. Calls for an end to bilaReiterates the support given by the EU to regional integral agreements and multion processes and the "bloc-to-bloc" negotilateral trade agreements that focus solely on free trade, to the detriment of human rights, or have the effect of fragmention approach pursued by the EU through association agreements, as in the case of Central America; recognises, however, that countries that wish to step their relations with the EU should not be disadvantaged by internal problems ing regional blocs such as the Andean Communityintegration processes, as is the case with the Andean Community, nor by sovereign decisions by their component parts, however legitimate these may be;