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Activities of Bernhard ZIMNIOK related to 2023/2052(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

Recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the EEAS on the situation in Syria (debate)
2024/02/27
Dossiers: 2023/2052(INI)

Amendments (15)

Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) reaffirm the EU’smany Member States’ support for Syria's continued democratic aspirations, despite the regime's total repression since the peaceful protests in 2011, which has been bolstered by decisive military and financial assistance from Iran and Russia to enable Assad and his cronies to retain power; note that pragmatic political thinking leads to the understanding that Assad and his supporters are the only viable and sustainable power in Syria for now, regardless of the fact that Western measures against Assad forced him to look elsewhere for support;
2023/12/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) stress the regime’s personal responsibility for the death of half a million civilians, the destruction of the country, the displacement of the majority of the population, the torture and disappearance of 150 000 people at the hands of the concentration-camp system, the use of chemical weapons against civilians and the systematic destruction of any peaceful opposition;deleted
2023/12/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c
(c) oppose anystress the need for normalisation of relations with the Assad regime without any profound and verifiable developments in the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2254 (2015), including the release of political prisoners, informing the families of the victims about the fate of the missing and the cessation of any attacks and obstacles to humanitarian aidin order to return all third country nationals still lingering within the Member States that arrived during the past 10 years under the pretext of being a refugee from Syria;
2023/12/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) stress that despite the sovereign decision of some Arab states to readmit Syria to the Arab League, the Syrian regime has not given any indication that it wants to combat narcotrafficking, a problem originating in Syria and which affects the whole region; condemn the stranglehold of the Assad family and its allies, including Hezbollah, on the drug Captagon, which is estimated to be worth USD 57 billion; note that the brother of Bashar Al-Assad commands the army unit responsible for facilitating the drug’s production; stress that despite the sovereign decision of some Arab states to readmit Syria to the Arab League, the Syrian regime has not given any indication that it wants to combat narcotrafficking, a problem originating in Syria and which affects the whole region, including Hezbollah, on the drug Captagon, which is estimated to be worth USD 57 billion; note that the brother of Bashar Al-Assad commands the army unit responsible for facilitating the drug's production; note that the European Commission and some Member States such as Germany and Sweden facilitated the spread of drug-gangs within the EU during the 2015 mass-migration crises as they allowed other ethnic groups, some based in Iran, to enter the EU under the false pretence of being a Syrian refugee and that these gangs now have become a major threat to internal stability and security in many Member States;
2023/12/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) stress that the repression, negligence and corruption on the part of the regime are responsible for the economic situation, notas well as the targeted sanctions from the EU against individuals and entities involved in the repression;
2023/12/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) urge Member States to continuestop repatriating theird country nationals who have EU Member State documents from the Al-Hol and Roj jihadist prison camps and to try themensure that they are tried for the crimes they have committed locally, in Syria, and that they will face the punishment locally, in Syria;
2023/12/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subheading 3
Fight against impunitydeleted
2023/12/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m
(m) stress that the fight against impunity in Syria is a moral and political imperative for Europe; welcome the judicial progress made by the Franco- German Joint Investigation Team regarding the 11 000 bodies of torture victims identified in the César report, the suspension of Syria from the International Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the progress made in Germany, France and Sweden in bringing Syrian criminals to justice;deleted
2023/12/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n
(n) urge that information be exchanged automatically between all Member States on war criminals whose asylum applications are rejected under Article 1(F) of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees;deleted
2023/12/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o
(o) call for the pooling of expertise and interpreters among the judicial and police authorities, and for a public prosecutor to be appointed in each Member State for crimes against humanity; call for European scholarships to be specifically allocated to Syrians seeking legal training;deleted
2023/12/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p
(p) call on Member States to establish a European fund for victims of crimes against humanity in Syria, by developing a legal framework allowing the transfer to families of the victims funds frozen for being linked to property unlawfully acquired by the Syrian regime;deleted
2023/12/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q
(q) welcome the adoption of the UN General Assembly resolution of 29 June 2023 establishing an Institution for Missing Persons in Syria, and the continued funding of the International, Independent and Impartial Mechanism to support investigations into the most serious crimes committed in Syria since 2011;deleted
2023/12/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r
(r) invite the international community, at the 2024 Brussels Conference, to indecrease urgently its humanitarian assistance to the 15.3 million Syrians who depend on it on a daily basis; insist on access to clean water, education and long- term budget support tailored to women’s needs; point out that the EU is the biggest contributorfunding for the immediate repatriation of all third country nationals from the Member States who managed to get into this regard; welcome the continued efforts of Lebanon, Jordan, Türkiye and Iraq to host 6 million refugees while facing difficult economic conditionse EU under the pretext of being a refugee from Syria;
2023/12/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s
(s) condemn the systematicexpress concern about the allegations of attempts by the Syrian regime to divert international humanitarian aid and transfer it to militias, and the alleged regime's manipulation of exchange rates with the aim of seizing the majority of the aid in the territories under its control, call for an independent investigation into these allegations and the immediate end to all types of aid for Syria;
2023/12/12
Committee: AFET
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u
(u) recall that Syria canshall notw be regarded, in whole orand in part, as a safe country for the return of its nationals living as refugees in Europe, people who have fled the crimes of the regime and risk torture and enforced disappearance if they return to Syriaall third country nationals that arrived in the EU the past 10 years , allegedly refugees from Syria, regardless of their factual nationality;
2023/12/12
Committee: AFET