14 Amendments of Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI related to 2015/2114(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 29 a (new)
Citation 29 a (new)
- having regard to Council Decision 2014/512/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s actions destabilizing the situation in Ukraine,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the global security environment around the EU has dramatically changed, especially in the southern and eastern neighbourhood; including protracted conflicts in the South Caucasus, including illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia, Russia’s involvement in destabilization of Eastern Ukraine; including developments in Syria where policies of the Assad regime and the so- called Islamic State create atrocities to people of Syria and Iraq and what contributes to new waves of migration towards the EU;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Finds regrettable, notwithstanding the numerous arms export control regimes, that developments in the last two years have shown that weapons often end up in the hands of repressive regimesgimes conducting repressive domestic and/or aggressive foreign policy, armed groups and violent non-state actors, terrorists and criminals, and are used to fuel insecurity and armed conflicts internally and externally, or to support internal repression, regional conflicts and grave violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Finds regrettable that despite the August 2008 Russian intervention in Georgia which violated criteria 4, 5 and 6 of the Common Position, many EU countries have chosen to supply Russia with weapons and technologies aimed at overcoming deficiencies of Russian Army shown in the war against Georgia; especially eventually cancelled sales of French Mistral ships and building by Germany the special forces training center in Mulino; Russia allegedly used technologies transferred in this cooperation during the illegal annexation of Crimea;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Finds regrettable that despite criterion No. 1 of the Common Position (‘respect for Member States’ international obligations, in particular the sanctions adopted by the European Union’) many EU countries continued cooperation with Russia in the military or dual-use fields; deplores the fact that after the Crimea annexation despite clear evidence of Russia non-compliance with at least three of the Common Position criteria and strong concerns from a range of the EU Members States, particularly from Russia’s immediate neighbours, military cooperation with Russia was not immediately halted, thus undermining credibility of the EU in the promoting a law-based system of arm transfer controls;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Expresses its concern with the EU cooperation with Russia in sensitive areas such as Galileo satellites launching with Soyuz rockets and strategic airlift of EU Battlegroups through Russian intermediary company Ruslan SALIS; regrets that on 24 February 2015, the European Commission approved the creation of a joint venture by Germany’s Daimler AG and the Russian military equipment enterprise Kamaz;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for a deep and systematic verification of implementation of EU sanctions regime against Russia in arms exports and sales of dual-use technologies;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on European Commission to stop further cooperation with Russia in space sector as well as using the Russian intermediary company Ruslan SALIS to charter Ukrainian AN planes in case of an emergency to airlift EU Battlegroups to the crisis area;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Deplores that irresponsible arms transfers continue to hinder democratic, economic and social development in many parts of the world; recognises that the coherent interpretation and effective implementation of Criterion Eight would be a decisive contribution to the EU’s Policy Coherence on Development objectives;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Deplores Assad regime’s use of barrel- bombs against people of Syria; points out that atrocities committed by the Assad regime contribute to new waves of migrants storming EU; calls on European Council to oppose Russian demands to send weapons for Assad regime in Syria; supports Bulgaria’s decision to close airspace for Russian military deliveries to Syria; calls on Greece and Iraq to also close their airspace for Russian military deliveries to Syria; calls on Russia to stop supplying weapons to the Assad regime; calls on Russia to stop expending its naval base in Tartus and to discard its plans to build a new airbase in Latakia, Syria;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on Member States to coherently interpret and rigorously apply the Common Position criteria in all cases, not letting political and economic considerations to override a decision- making process; calls on Member States to cancel already agreed contracts when a deal in result of sharply changed situation breaches the Common Position;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses the need to ensure a more coherent policy on embargos; calls on Member States to apply arms and dual-use embargos with immediate effect; calls on Member States to eliminate any ambiguities in their systems but also at the level of the Wassenaar Arrangement concerning the export of ‘military’ and ‘non-military’ arms, which could lead to small arms transfers being able to circumvent regulation systems through being described as ‘non-military’;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Finds regrettable that only 21 Member States made full submissions to the 16th Annual Report; deplores that Greece has not provided any data and that Germany and the UK did not submit any data on actual arms exports and that France provided a total figure for arms exports which was not disaggregated; points out that these are the same countries that are the biggest exporters and shoulder major responsibility for the global impact of EU arms exports;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on Member States and European Commission to investigate sources of arms deliveries to major Islamist and other militant groups involved in causing and facilitating the migration flows to EU;