7 Amendments of Ricardo CORTÉS LASTRA related to 2013/2020(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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1. Asserts that the addressing of security- relatedpersonal- security concerns across the Sahel region as defined in the European Union Strategy for Security and Development in the Sahel of 2011 is a precondition for the framing of development policies;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 3
3. Calls on local and regional authorities, in association with civil society, to establish reliable security conditions and respect for human rights within the Sahel countries and at borders in order to ensure that development policies and humanitarian aid policies can be pursued in the most effective manner;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
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4. Emphasises that the various conflicts in the Sahel region have led not just to greater population displacement within those states, but also to an increase in the number of refugees; calls on the EU, the Sahel countries, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the AU and ECOWAS to coordinate their refugee policies with a view to ensuring healthy and dignified living conditions for refugees, guaranteeing the personal safety of the most vulnerable refugee groups and establishing self- sufficiency programmes;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
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5. Calls on the countries of the Sahel and the local and regional authorities to introduce policies aimed at ensuring the personal safety of refugees, at combating the trafficking of drugs, weapons, and human beings, and violence against women, and the trafficking of goods, and at combating terrorism;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the need for all the countries of the Sahel to introduce policies establishing intra-Sahel networks (transport, telecommunications, etc.) to ensure the successful and efficient channelling of humanitarian aid in a neutral fashion and to all concerned without restriction; expects those countries and local and regional authorities to ensure the permanency and accessibility of those networks;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
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8. Invites the EU to introduce, in cooperation with the countries of the Sahel, priority development policies aimed at alleviating the food crisis and the problems of malnutrition and famine, at ensuring drought resistance and at providing responses to natural disasters; calls on the Commission to make optimum usensure that the use made of the funds earmarked for combating malnutrition (EUR 123.5 million in 2012) is in keeping with those priority policies, meets the needs of the population concerned and supports the development of local capacities, in those countries, to ensure that the impact of the aid is positive;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to ensure optimum deployment in the Sahel, in line with the population’s pre-established needs, of all development funds: the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights, the European Development Fund, the Financing Instrument for Development Cooperation and the Sahel resilience Fund;