Activities of Jan Marinus WIERSMA related to 2008/2003(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
2006 Annual report on the CFSP - Annual report on the implementation of the European Security Strategy and ESDP (debate)
Amendments (1)
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 a (new)
Paragraph 43 a (new)
43a. Is of the view that the U.S. plan to establish an anti-missile system in Europe at this time may hamper international disarmament efforts; expresses its concerns about Russia's suspension of implementation of its obligations under the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, which has caused worries about the strategic balance in Europe; stresses that both issues affect the security of all European countries and should not therefore be the subject of purely bilateral discussions between the U.S. and individual European countries; calls on the Council and the Member States to establish, together with NATO, a framework designed to include as many European countries as possible in the debate; invites the Council and NATO to evaluate estimated future nuclear threats from certain countries and the danger of a new arms race in Europe and to propose an adequate multilateral response to them, with the possibility of including the proposed U.S. anti-missile system in the NATO framework;