Progress: Procedure completed
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | AFET | LAMBSDORFF Alexander Graf ( ALDE) | ANDRIKIENĖ Laima Liucija ( PPE), MUÑIZ DE URQUIZA María ( S&D), LOCHBIHLER Barbara ( Verts/ALE), TANNOCK Timothy Charles Ayrton ( ECR) |
Committee Opinion | DEVE | GUERRERO SALOM Enrique ( S&D) | Eva JOLY ( Verts/ALE) |
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 134o-p3
Legal Basis:
RoP 134o-p3Events
The European Parliament adopted a Recommendation to the Council on the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
The recommendation covers six priority issues the Council should address at the 65th session which starts in September 2010: i) the EU's place at the UN, ii) world governance and UN reform, iii) peace and security, iv) development, v) climate change and vi) human rights.
1) The European Union at the United Nations: noting that the current structure of the UN Security Council does not reflect the realities and needs of the 21st century, Parliament invites the Council to:
strengthen, through enhanced dialogue with key partners, effective multilateralism in order to build a stronger UN; seek to project itself within the UN system as an honest broker between different membership groups; push for solutions that allow the Union's empowered external role and increased responsibility to be more visible; ensure that the EU speaks with a single voice in order to make its position heard; ensure that the Union's values and interests are represented in an effective and coherent way in the UN system; seek more substantive cooperation and dialogue with the new US administration and with emerging global and regional players like China, India and Brazil, with the aim of finding a common agenda and common solutions to global challenges; to improve the Union's long-term planning specifically with regard to major upcoming UN events such as the MDG Review and the NPT Review Conference in 2010.
2) Global governance and UN reform: Parliament urges the Vice-President/High Representative (VP/HR) to build a more cohesive position among EU Member States on the reform of the UN Security Council and emphasises that an EU seat in an enlarged Security Council remains a goal of the European Union.
The main recommendations are as follows:
to take a lead in the current debate on global governance and to ensure that clear bridges exist between the work of the G20 and the UN, as the legitimate body for global action; to promote stronger participation by national and transnational parliaments in UN activities; to contribute to implementing the new gender architecture.
3) Peace and security: Parlieament emphasises the need to define better the notion of the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), and its importance in preventing conflicts while encouraging its implementation.
On peacekeeping and peacebuilding, Parliament recommends that the EU take a lead in finding a new horizon for UN peacekeeping by emphasising civilian-military synergies and by improving coordination between various regional partners, in particular between the EU and the African Union. It also recommends that the Council strive for a coherent EU position and actions with regard to the review of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in 2011, and support efforts to expand the role of the PBC.
On nuclear disarmament, Parliament calls on the Council to:
work with EU Member States towards achieving a successful outcome of the 2010 NPT Review Conference and to commit to the aim of complete nuclear disarmament in line with UN Security Council resolution 1887; support the US administration in its commitment to global nuclear disarmament encouraged by President Obama's vision of a world without nuclear weapons; underline the need for effective arms control, including small arms and ammunitions containing depleted uranium; strengthen cooperation and coordination with key partners in the fight against terrorism on the basis of full respect for international law and human rights
4) Development and climate change: Parliament wants the EU to exercise leadership in strengthening the effectiveness of UN development assistance and considers that there needs to be a more coherent UN programming and operational framework to help maximise the impact of UN development assistance. In its view, the crisis not be used as an excuse to avoid or delay the necessary global response to climate change and environmental degradation. On the contrary, the response to the crisis should be used as an opportunity to establish the basis of a new and modern green economy.
In preparation for the MDG Review Conference, the EU should reconfirm its commitment to the MDG targets to be reached by 2015 and urge all partners to do the same, pointing to the fact that donors are falling short on their 2005 pledges on annual aid flows and that overall progress has been too slow for most of the goals to be met by 2015, notably on maternal health and infant mortality.
The Council should: i) give a clear signal that a new, even more ambitious agenda for poverty eradication will be adopted before 2015, ii) propose innovative funding mechanisms such as an international tax on financial transactions; iii) reassert its collective commitment to allocate 0.7% of GNI on ODA by 2015, based on clear and binding timetables for each Member State.
5) Climate change: Parliament recommends promoting a debate in view of the forthcoming Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) in Mexico in December 2010 and to start building consensus on the adoption of a new binding international agreement on climate change for the period post-2012. It wants to avoid the mistakes of COP15 in Copenhagen which failed to deliver an international binding agreement, by suggesting specific voting rules, based on significant majorities, in order to facilitate progress in the negotiations.
6) Human rights: Parliament invites the VP/HR to speak with one voice on behalf of all EU Member States when addressing human rights issues, and also to call on each Member State to emphasise those unified EU positions in order to give them more weight. It wants the Council to:
achieve an efficient proactive negotiation strategy as well as a common position on the 2011 review of the Human Rights Council (HRC); agree with cross-regional partners in the HRC review on membership criteria and set of guidelines to be used during the election of the HRC; exercise leadership in the promotion and protection of human rights, including the rights of members of vulnerable groups and minorities, freedom of expression and free media, freedom of religion, the rights of the child, the protection of human rights defenders and cooperation with civil society; concentrate efforts to reinforce the global trend towards the abolition of death penalty.
On gender mainstreaming, the resolution states that the Council should strive to empower more women so they can fulfil their vital role in contributing to sustainable peace, security and reconciliation as well as to promote their participation in mediation and conflict resolution, also in view of the upcoming 10th anniversary of UNSC Resolution 1325.
Lastly, Members suggest that the EU should make efforts to include a separate item on the agenda of the 65th UNGA concerning cooperation between the United Nations Organisation, regional assemblies, national parliaments and the Interparliamentary Union (IPU) in order to foster debate on how parliamentarians, national parliaments and regional parliamentary assemblies can play a more active role in the United Nations.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted the own-initiative report drawn up by Alexander Graf LAMBSDORFF (ALDE, DE) on a proposal for a European Parliament recommendation to the Council on the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. The recommendation covers six priority issues that the committee feels the Council should address at the 65th session which starts in September 2010: the EU's place at the UN, world governance and UN reform, peace and security, development, human rights and climate change.
The European Union at the United Nations : Members note that the current structure of the UN Security Council does not reflect the realities and needs of the 21st century. They also note that the EU and its Member States are the largest contributors to the UN system providing around 40 per cent of the assessed budget of the UN, over 40% of the peacekeeping costs and 12% of troops, as well as over half of the core funding of the UN funds and programmes.
Recommendations include the following:
to strengthen effective multilateralism in order to build a stronger UN; to foster the common, coherent and consistent EU approach at the UN that third parties expect; to seek to project itself within the UN system as an honest broker between different membership groups; to push for solutions that allow the Union's empowered external role to be more visible, and to ensure that the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York is adequately equipped to cope with its enhanced role, particularly in terms of staff; to ensure that the EU speaks with a single voice in order to make its position heard, while drawing lessons from the climate conference in Copenhagen in December 2009; to ensure that the Union's interests are represented in an effective way ,and to project itself as a cohesive force that is able to deliver, especially on significant votes; to seek more substantive dialogue with the new US administration and with China, India and Brazil, with the aim of finding common solutions to global challenges; to improve the Union's long-term planning specifically with regard to major UN events such as the MDG Review and the NPT Review Conference in 2010.
Global governance and UN reform : Members urge the Vice-President/High Representative (VP/HR) to build a more cohesive position among EU Member States on the reform of the UN Security Council and to emphasise that an EU seat in an enlarged Security Council remains a goal of the European Union .
Amongst recommendations to the Council are the following:
ensure that clear bridges exist between the work of the G20 and the UN , as the legitimate body for global action; stress the need for a comprehensive reform of the Security Council in all its aspects.
Peace and Security : Members emphasised the need to define better the notion of the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) , and its importance in preventing conflicts. They also want to see a UN resolution on sea-dumped chemical weapons and the threat they present to ecology, health, security and the economy.
On peacekeeping and peacebuilding, the committee recommends that the EU take a lead in finding a new horizon for UN peacekeeping by emphasising civilian-military synergies and by improving coordination between various regional partners, in particular between the EU and the African Union. It also recommends that the Council strive for a coherent EU position and actions with regard to the review of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in 2011, and support efforts to expand the role of the PBC.
On nuclear disarmament , Members want the Council to:
work with EU Member States towards achieving a successful outcome of the 2010 NPT Review Conference and to commit to the aim of complete nuclear disarmament in line with UN Security Council resolution 1887; support the US administration in its commitment to global nuclear disarmament encouraged by President Obama's vision of a world without nuclear weapons.
Development and climate change : Members want the EU to exercise leadership in strengthening the effectiveness of UN development assistance since the current fragmentation may lead to progressive marginalisation of the UN as a primary actor in development. There needs to be a more coherent UN programming and operational framework to help maximise the impact of UN development assistance.
In preparation for the MDG Review Conference , the EU should reconfirm its commitment to the MDG targets to be reached by 2015 and urge all partners to do the same, pointing to the fact that donors are falling short on their 2005 pledges on annual aid flows and that overall progress has been too slow for most of the goals to be met by 2015, notably on maternal health (MDG 5). The report underlines that the international community has to make additional efforts to tackle the adverse effects of the global economic crisis and climate change on developing countries. The Council should propose innovative funding mechanisms such as an international tax on financial transactions . It must also reassert its collective commitment to allocate 0.7% of GNI on ODA by 2015, based on clear and binding timetables for each Member State.
The committee goes on to recommend promoting a debate in view of the forthcoming Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) in Mexico in December 2010 and to start building consensus on the adoption of a new binding international agreement on climate change for the period post-2012. It wants to avoid the mistakes of COP15 in Copenhagen which failed to deliver an international binding agreement, by suggesting specific voting rules, based on significant majorities, in order to facilitate progress in the negotiations.
Human Rights : the report urges the VP/HR to speak with one voice on behalf of all EU Member States when addressing human rights issues, and also to call on each Member State to emphasise those unified EU positions in order to give them more weight. It wants to:
achieve an efficient proactive negotiation strategy as well as a common position on the 2011 review of the Human Rights Council (HRC); strongly advocate that the UN General Assembly continue to address country specific situations in resolutions while working to avoid the use of 'No Action Motions'; concentrate efforts to reinforce the global trend towards the abolition of death penalty.
On gender mainstreaming , the report states that those EU Member States who have not yet become active in this respect to produce national action plans (NAPs) to implement UNSC Resolution 1325.
Lastly, the report wants the EU to make efforts to include a separate item on the agenda of the 65th UNGA concerning cooperation between the UN, regional assemblies, national parliaments and the Interparliamentary Union (IPU) in order to foster debate on how parliamentarians, national parliaments and regional parliamentary assemblies can play a more active role in the UN.
Pursuant to Rule 121(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament, Alexander Graf LAMBSDORFF (ALDE, DE) tabled a proposal for a recommendation to the Council on behalf of the ALDE group on the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
The draft recommendation recalls that EU foreign policy is based on strong and unequivocal support for effective multilateralism, as embodied in the United Nations Charter and that the European Union is a key political and financial partner for the UN. It stresses that the long-overdue reform of the UN Security Council has yet to be achieved.
Furthermore, it is underlined that the coordination of EU Member States’ positions within the United Nations should be improved following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty on 1 December 2009. This coordination requires closer cooperation between the new European External Action Service, the relevant Brussels-based Council working groups, the EU Delegation Office and the Member States’ Permanent Representations in New York.
Given that the Lisbon Treaty conferred legal personality upon the EU, a new development which will have major repercussions as regards the representation of the European Union at the UN, the following recommendations have been made to the Council:
Visibility of the European Union at the United Nations : the European Parliament
calls for the Union’s political priorities for the next UN General Assembly session to be the subject of an in-depth, wide-ranging debate in Brussels and to be spelt out in a formal position of the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; considers that this formal position should be regarded by the Permanent Representations in New York as a binding political platform to be used as a basis for negotiations with other countries; urges the Vice-President/High Representative to represent the Union at the United Nations.
The EU’s contribution to the reform of the United Nations : the European Parliament
urges the Vice-President/High Representative to speak on behalf of all the Member States when addressing human rights issues, but also points out that it is important for each Member State to voice the EU’s position, in order to give it more weight; calls on the Vice-President/High Representative to build a more cohesive position among the Member States on the reform of the UN Security Council and to ask them for a clear mandate to advocate this position at the UN.
Pursuant to Rule 121(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament, Alexander Graf LAMBSDORFF (ALDE, DE) tabled a proposal for a recommendation to the Council on behalf of the ALDE group on the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
The draft recommendation recalls that EU foreign policy is based on strong and unequivocal support for effective multilateralism, as embodied in the United Nations Charter and that the European Union is a key political and financial partner for the UN. It stresses that the long-overdue reform of the UN Security Council has yet to be achieved.
Furthermore, it is underlined that the coordination of EU Member States’ positions within the United Nations should be improved following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty on 1 December 2009. This coordination requires closer cooperation between the new European External Action Service, the relevant Brussels-based Council working groups, the EU Delegation Office and the Member States’ Permanent Representations in New York.
Given that the Lisbon Treaty conferred legal personality upon the EU, a new development which will have major repercussions as regards the representation of the European Union at the UN, the following recommendations have been made to the Council:
Visibility of the European Union at the United Nations : the European Parliament
calls for the Union’s political priorities for the next UN General Assembly session to be the subject of an in-depth, wide-ranging debate in Brussels and to be spelt out in a formal position of the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; considers that this formal position should be regarded by the Permanent Representations in New York as a binding political platform to be used as a basis for negotiations with other countries; urges the Vice-President/High Representative to represent the Union at the United Nations.
The EU’s contribution to the reform of the United Nations : the European Parliament
urges the Vice-President/High Representative to speak on behalf of all the Member States when addressing human rights issues, but also points out that it is important for each Member State to voice the EU’s position, in order to give it more weight; calls on the Vice-President/High Representative to build a more cohesive position among the Member States on the reform of the UN Security Council and to ask them for a clear mandate to advocate this position at the UN.
Documents
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament: T7-0084/2010
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0049/2010
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A7-0049/2010
- Committee opinion: PE438.237
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE438.510
- Committee draft report: PE438.252
- Non-legislative basic document: B7-0243/2009
- Non-legislative basic document published: B7-0243/2009
- Non-legislative basic document: B7-0243/2009
- Committee draft report: PE438.252
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE438.510
- Committee opinion: PE438.237
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0049/2010
Amendments | Dossier |
87 |
2010/2020(INI)
2010/03/01
AFET
87 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a recommendation Citation 16 a (new) - having regard to its resolution of 6 June 2005 on the reform of the United Nations,
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital C C. whereas
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital D D. whereas, by supporting the Millennium Declaration on development in the year 2000, the European Union undertook to halve the incidence of extreme poverty worldwide by the year 2015, while concentrating its efforts on the progress of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and whereas these are minimum and conspicuously imperfect objectives, and achieving them cannot in itself be regarded as cause for satisfaction,
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital E E. whereas a new impetus is given by the institutional innovations on the gender architecture within the UN system in order to
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital E E. whereas a new impetus
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital F F. whereas negotiations on a comprehensive and legally binding international post-2012 agreement on climate change should result in a
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital F F. whereas negotiations on a comprehensive and legally binding international post-2012 agreement on climate change should result in an
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas the most recent financial crisis and the lasting global economic downturn are the worst since the Great Depression; whereas the crisis is turning out to be more prolonged and deeper than was initially anticipated; whereas this crisis is having a disproportionate negative impact on the developing countries and in particular the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) with far- reaching ramifications in their social and human domains,
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point a (a) to strengthen, through enhanced dialogue with key partners, effective
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point b (b)
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point b (b) to
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital A A. whereas the UN system, with the legitimacy that stems from its global membership,
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point b (b) to continue to project itself within the UN system as an honest broker between different membership groups in order to promote common understanding and greater cohesion across the three pillars of the United Nations (peace and security, development and human rights); to actively promote and systematically address the importance of effective multilateralism in its bilateral dialogues
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point c Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point c a (new) (ca) to ensure that the EU speaks with a single voice in order to make its position heard, while drawing lessons from the climate conference in Copenhagen in December 2009,
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point d (d) to ensure that the
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point e (e) to
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point f Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point e (e) to establish
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point e (e) to
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point e (e) to establish,
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point f (f) to seek a more substantive dialogue with
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the European Union is committed to multilateral cooperation and the strengthening of the United Nations system; whereas, therefore, the EU should be a driving force in the efforts to reform the organisation and continue to be a firm supporter of its important role in the international system,
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point g (g) to improve
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point h (h) to take a lead in the current debate on global governance and to ensure th
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point h a (new) (ha) to contribute to immediate, collective and forceful actions by the international community in favour of those countries which are not able to cope on their own with the impact of the crisis, and on a longer term basis to strive for a comprehensive reform process to redress the democratic deficits in the Bretton Woods institutions that have significantly lost their effectiveness and public support; to exercise leadership in addressing the dysfunctional aspects of globalisation and giving it a development dimension and a human face,
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point h a (new) (ha) to take tangible action and new initiatives in supporting the reform process of the UN system, stressing the need for a comprehensive reform of the Security Council in all its aspects,
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point i Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point i (i) to urge the Vice-President/High Representative to build a more cohesive position among EU Member States on the
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point i (i) to urge the Vice-President/High Representative to build a more cohesive position among EU Member States on the reform of the UN Security Council and to advance this position at the UN; to emphasise that an EU seat in the Security Council remains a
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point i a (new) (ia) to promote stronger participation by transnational parliaments in UN activities with the aim of establishing a UN Parliamentary Assembly as a means of strengthening the democratic nature of the United Nations, its programmes and its agencies and to support initiatives by civil society and parliaments to this end,
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point j (j) to step up efforts to democratise and revitalise the UN General Assembly in concerted action with
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point k (k) to contribute to implementing
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas the current structure of the UN Security Council does not reflect the realities and needs of the 21st century as emerging powers such as Japan, India or Brazil and entire continents such as Africa or the Arab world are not represented in the UN Security Council; whereas the UN Secretary General regards reform of the Security Council as part of the ongoing efforts to make this indispensable organ more broadly representative and efficient,
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point l (l) to fully support the efforts of the UN Secretary General to better define the notion of the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P),
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point l (l) to
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point l a (new) (la) to support the initiative of the EU Member States to adopt a UN resolution on sea-dumped chemical weapons and the threat they present to ecology, health, security and the economy, as well as on the need to strengthen international and regional cooperation on this issue and to exchange information, experience and technologies on a voluntary basis,
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point m (m) to
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point n Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point o (o) to strive for a
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – before point p – title Nuclear disarmament and non- proliferation, conventional disarmament and arms control, fight against terrorism
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point -p (new) (-p) to continue to foster EU-UN cooperation in the area of post-crisis recovery and to aim at comprehensive approaches to sustaining peace, preventing conflicts and addressing a wide range of political, economic, social and environmental conditions that contribute to the escalation of conflicts in societies,
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point p (p) to work coherently, consistently and efficiently with EU Member States towards achieving a successful outcome of the 2010 NPT Review Conference; to commit to the aim of
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point p (p) to work coherently, consistently and efficiently with EU Member States towards achieving a successful outcome of the 2010 NPT Review Conference; to commit to the aim of complete nuclear disarmament in line with UN Security Council resolution 1887 endorsing the goal of a nuclear- weapons-free world
Amendment 5 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas the EU and its Member States are the largest contributors to the UN system providing around 40 per cent of the assessed budget of the UN, over 40 per cent of the peacekeeping costs and 12 per cent of troops, as well as over half of the core funding of the UN funds and programmes,
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point p (p) to work coherently, consistently and efficiently with EU Member States towards achieving a successful outcome of the 2010 NPT Review Conference; to commit to the aim of complete nuclear disarmament in line with UN Security Council resolution 1887 endorsing the goal of a nuclear- weapons-free world
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point p a (new) (pa) to welcome the different initiatives taken by some EU Member States to negotiate within NATO the withdrawal of nuclear weapons on European territory in full cooperation with Russia in order to have a proportionate withdrawal,
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point p a (new) (pa) to exercise its influence in support of wider disarmament efforts and urge for more practical and effective disarmament measures; to stress the need for full implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), and the Anti-Personnel Mines Convention (APMC), underlining at the same time the need for further development of the international regime against proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point p b (new) (pb) to underline the need for effective arms control, including small arms and ammunitions containing depleted uranium,
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point q (q) to strengthen cooperation and coordination with key partners in the fight against terrorism on the basis of full respect for international law and human rights, and to support the UN’s multilateral counter-terrorism efforts
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point q (q) to strengthen cooperation and coordination with key partners
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point q (q) to strengthen cooperation and coordination with key partners in the fight against terrorism on the basis of full respect for international law and human rights,
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – before point r – title Development and climate change
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point r (r) to
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point r a (new) (ra) to insist that the crisis not be used as an excuse to avoid or delay the necessary global response to climate change and environmental degradation, and instead use the response to the crisis as an opportunity to establish the basis of a new and modern green economy; in this context the Green Economy Initiative, which was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme, should be fully supported and the related discussions on a Global Green New Deal should be encouraged,
Amendment 6 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital B Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point r a (new) (ra) to stress the need for sustainable economic growth and development,
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point s (s) to reassert the principle that development aid policy
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point t (t) in preparation for the MDG Review Conference, to reconfirm its commitment to the MDG targets to be reached by 2015; to urge all partners to do the same, pointing to the fact that donors are falling short on their 2005 pledges on annual aid flows and that overall progress has been too slow for most of the goals to be met by 2015,
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point u (u) to insist
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point u (u) to insist not to use MDG funds to tackle the consequences of the financial and climate change
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – after point u – title (new) Climate change
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point u a (new) (ua) to promote a debate in view of the forthcoming Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) in Mexico in December 2010 and to start building consensus on the adoption of a new binding international agreement on climate change for the period post-2012,
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point u b (new) (ub) to avoid the organizational and structural mistakes of COP15 in Copenhagen which failed to deliver an international binding agreement, by suggesting specific voting rules, based on significant majorities, in order to facilitate progress in the negotiations,
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point u a (new) (ua) to insist on an agenda and a roadmap for 2010-2015 aimed at reactivating the goals in order to preserve those goals on which progress has already been made as well as those that are at a standstill,
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point u b (new) (ub) to welcome the fact that Ministers renewed the EU’s commitment to allocate 0.7% of its GNI to ODA by 2015 and considered this as feasible,
Amendment 7 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital B B. whereas, according to the Treaty of Lisbon, the European Union will now be represented in external relations and international fora by a single entity, the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (‘the Vice- President/High Representative’) supported by a new EU diplomatic service; whereas the Treaty of Lisbon has also brought changes to the prerogatives of the Union’s external policies such as the
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point v (v) to urge the Vice-President/High Representative to
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point v (v) to urge the Vice-President/High Representative to speak with one voice on behalf of all EU Member States when addressing human rights issues, and also to call on each Member State to emphasise those unified EU positions in order to give them more weight, taking into account that, in accordance with Article 21 of the TEU, the universality and indivisibility of human rights and fundamental freedoms is one of the principles that shall guide the Union’s action on the international scene, and that the support of democracy and human rights is one of the objectives of its external action,
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point w (w) to achieve, in early and substantive dialogue with EU Member States and the UN membership, an efficient proactive negotiation strategy as well as a common position on the review of the Human Rights Council
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point x a (new) Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point x b (new) (xb) to recognise the need for a more comprehensive debate in the UNHRC and to acknowledge the discussions on ways to strengthen the UNHRC without opening the Institutional Building package and by preserving the independence of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (HCHR),
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point y (y) to insist
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point y (y) to
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point y a (new) (ya) to exercise leadership in the promotion and protection of human rights, including the rights of members of vulnerable groups and minorities, freedom of expression and free media, freedom of religion, the rights of the child, the protection of human rights defenders and cooperation with civil society,
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point y a (new) (ya) to strongly advocate the prioritization of human rights in formulating a response to the global financial slowdown, because its negative impact is disproportionately felt by the already marginalized sectors of the population in many countries where the enjoyment of human rights is severely curtailed or completely undermined,
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point z (z)
Amendment 8 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the EU will have to succeed the EC as observer to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and other UN bodies, as a party to a number of UN conventions, and, in a few exceptional cases such as the FAO, as a member,
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point aa (aa) to strive to
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point aa a (new) (aaa) to show its deep commitment to UNSC Resolution 1325 adopted in 2000 by taking part in the events commemorating its 10th anniversary,
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point a c Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point a c (ac) to promote
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point a c (ac) to promote a debate on human influence on climate change with regard to the forthcoming Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) in Mexico in December 2010
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point a d Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point a d (ad) to
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point a d (ad) to avoid the organisational and structural mistakes of COP15 in Copenhagen, which failed to
Amendment 9 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas the EU Member States recently split over whether to attend the Durban review conference on racism; whereas differences emerged in the EU’s scrutiny of China’s human rights performance in the UNHRC and in the vote on the Goldstone report; whereas all this has been to the detriment of the EU’s influence and its capacity to assert its values in the UN,
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