6 Amendments of Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS related to 2016/2053(INI)
Amendment 4 #
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1. Highlights the need to rebuild the EU-ACP relationship on fresh foundations as a fair partnership between equals, respecting countries’' heterogeneity and sovereignty whilst achieving good governance and democracy; stresses that the partnership must have as its objectives the United Nations SDGs, the meeting of basic needs anda free and fair society with respect for human rights;
Amendment 29 #
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2. Emphasises the negative effectsed of association agreements onfor the economiegovernments of ACP countries to enhance the overall performance of their economies; takes the view that the new partnership will need to be based on developing the countries’' productive capacities, completing the most advantageous regional integration processes, protecting traditional agriculture, and combating land grabbing, within a clear logic of sustainable development and without illegal exploitation of natural resources by state-owned foreign companies, completing the most advantageous regional integration processes while taking benefit from existing nurturing structures like the African Union, complementing traditional agriculture with efficient ways of agricultural exploitation, distribution and marketing to the benefit of the population, and combating land grabbing by foreign and domestic forces; recommends to consider the privatisation of national natural resources and public services, and over- exploitation;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
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3. Invites ACP countries to audit their debts with a view to their complete elimination, and invites them to claim reparations for the spoliation of natural resources by foreign multinationals, and for the wars that have been sparkedenhance their sustainability, and invites them to introduce legislation that enhances the sustainable and sound governance of natural resources; supports the United Nations working group on an international framework for sovereign debt restructuring;
Amendment 67 #
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4. Stresses that the universality of the human rights enshrined in international law, including international law on migrants and refugees, must be respected, along with the Geneva Convention; urges countries to ratify the United Nations Convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their familirecognizes that several root causes, among which local and regional conflicts, corruption, bad governance, unsustainable exploitation of natural resources, lack of democracy and serious violations of human rights lead to unsustainable migratory pressures;
Amendment 76 #
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5. SupportsTakes note of the decision by the United Nations to create a legal instrument to ensure that businesses respect human rights, in order to put an end to labour exploitation, neo-slavery, illicit capital flows and the financing of armed conflicts as an element in the further democratisation of ACP countries; highlights the responsibilities of the member states involved to entrust their citizens with good governance and the duty to provide security and stability for human and economic development;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
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