5 Amendments of Richard HOWITT related to 2008/2111(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas such coordination requires closer cooperation between the relevant Brussels-based working groups of the Council and the EU Offices and the Member States’ Permanent Representations in New York and Geneva,
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) calls for the Union’s political priorities for the next UN General Assembly session to be the subject of an in-depth, wide- ranging debate in Brussels, with the active involvement of the European Parliament and civil society, and to be spelt out in a formal position of the Council,
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point l
Paragraph 1 – point l
(l) invites the Council to fully support the re-launch of negotiations aimed at implementing the recommendations of the High-Level Panel on System-wide Coherence, and calls on EU Member States to make full use of the Union’s collective leverage, as well as their own leverage, with regard to developing countries which are recipients of European or national assistance in order to secure their support for the overhaul of UN assistance delivery and the promotion of greater coherence between UN policies on the ground,
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point q
Paragraph 1 – point q
(q) is concerned by recent comments on the work of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the impact these could have on the independence of the Office; reiterates its support for the Office and calls on EU Member States to closely monitor the procedure for the appointment of the new High Commissioner when the mandate of the current incumbent expires in June 2008, and to closely monitor the debate on the work of the High Commissioner in the Human Rights Council as well as on resources for the Office of the High Commissioner in the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly, so as to ensure that there is no interference with the independence of the Office and that the Office is granted all the financial resources needed to enable it to carry out its mandate in complete independence,
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point y a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point y a (new)
(ya) calls on the Council to continue to give high priority to building successful cross-regional partnerships, in particular working with partners in all regions of the world to ensure effective implementation of UN General Assembly Resolution 62/149 calling for a worldwide moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty, and to establish an effective international arms trade treaty,