5 Amendments of Ria OOMEN-RUIJTEN related to 2013/2167(INI)
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
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5. Considers the development of stable, liberalmodern democracies with a functioning rule of law to be a tool of peace, international cooperation and willingness to constructively tackle global issues, and considers that it is in the interest of the EU to actively promote a political culture of tolerance, openness and secularism, as well as the development of democratic institutions throughout the world;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 6
6. Notes in particular that the democratisation of numerous states throughout the world in the past two decades, and more recently the events of the uprisings in the Arab world, have shown that the quest for democracy, human dignity and equal participation is not only a Western ideology but an important action driver within and across diverse cultural systems and religious backgrounds;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 8
8. Rejects essentialist visions of cultures as fixed entities; believes that the growing interaction of people belonging to different cultural and religious backgrounds can lead to the development and strengthening of a common core of universal values;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
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16. Calls foron the EU to cooperate with those Islamic states which upholdstress the importance of religious tolerance and inclusive and tolerant vision of Islamness in its external policy to counter the attempts to promote fundamentalist and exclusivist interpretations of religion; notes that radical religious resurgence is not limited to the Muslim world but it is taking place on a global scale;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 19
19. Recalls that freedom of religion and conscience implies equally both the right to promote religious beliefs and the right tothe right to choose, promote and change one’s belief; expects bothall of these aspects to be present in the EU’s initiatives for intercultural dialogue;