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Activities of James CARVER related to 2015/2104(INI)

Plenary speeches (2)

The role of the EU within the UN (A8-0308/2015 - Paavo Väyrynen)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2104(INI)
The role of the EU within the UN (short presentation)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2104(INI)

Amendments (8)

Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the General Assembly representing the governments of all member countries must have ways and means to give direction to the United Nations System and coordinate all its activities; is of the opinion that in the long term the democratic governance of the UN should be strengthened by establishing a World Parliament representing the people;deleted
2015/09/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Is convinced that the Security Council, whose composition is based on an outdated world order, must be reformed in order to reflect the new world geopolitical reality and to more effectively meet the present and future security challenges;deleted
2015/09/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Is convinced thatRecognises and supports the current basis for permanent membership of the UN Security Council, whose composition is as being based on an outdthose stateds world order, must be reformed in order to reflect the new world geopolitical reality and to more effectively meet the present and future security challengeshich are recognised nuclear powers in the Treaty on Non-Nuclear Proliferation;
2015/09/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Considering the contribution of the EU to peace and security architecture in the world, calls on a reform of the Security Council that would ensure a permanent seat to the European Union; notes that, due to the absence of the EU from the Security Council, the burden of echoing, advocating for and defending the interests of the EU, based on a coordinated CFSP, lies on the two permanent and the rotating European members;deleted
2015/09/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Considering the contribution of the EU to peace and security architecture in the world, calls on a reform of the Security Council that would ensure a permanent seat to the European Union; noRecognises the strong role that the UN Security Council, in its current format, has played in striving for global peace and security, not least during the Cold War; rejects any attempt to altesr that, due to the absence of the EU from the Security Council, the burden of echoing, advocating for and defending the interests of the EU, based on a coordinated CFSP, lie current format of the UN Security Council, especially calls for the European Union to gain a single seat at the behest on the twof both permanent and the rotating European memberrevolving seats, that may be held individually, by members states;
2015/09/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. With a view to ensure the necessary legitimacy, efficiency and effectiveness of the decisions that this Sustainable Development Council would take, considers that its status and composition should be similar to those of the Security Council with a few permanent members, including the EU, and rotating ones; considers however that no justification whatsoever can be found to entitle a country or a regional organisation to the right to stop any decision taken by a majority or a qualified majority of the members, and therefore rejects any form of veto right;deleted
2015/09/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Considers that the EU should take more advantage of partnerships with the UN Specialized Agencies, Funds, Programmes, Commissions and Committees both in enhancing its global goals and in solving its own problems;deleted
2015/09/17
Committee: AFET
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that besides these necessary reforms to be carried out within the UN a better achievement of EU foreign policy goals implies a more effective coordination of the various dimensions of all its external policy, both bilateral and multilateral;deleted
2015/09/17
Committee: AFET