23 Amendments of Anna IBRISAGIC related to 2009/2217(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the international community has implicitly recognised that nine years of war and international involvement haves not yet succeeded in eliminating the Taliban insurgency and bringing peace and stability to the country,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas an impasse has been reached in Afghanistan: a coalition of occupying powers in place but unable to defeat the Talibanit is difficult to see an obvious end in sight, with an international coalition unable to defeat the Taliban through military means only, and an insurgency movement unable to prevail against these military forces; and whereas there is no obvious end in sight,
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Strongly believes that women's rights are part of the security solution – it is impossible to achieve stability in Afghanistan without women enjoying their full rights in political, social and economic life; calls on the Afghan authorities to include women in every stage of the peace talks and reconciliation/reintegration efforts;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Recognises the potential for local corruption but believes that this will be outweighed by the strengthened legitimacyand affirms that one of the goals of the international involvement is that the Afghan State will gain by beingbe responsible for implementing aid and by ensuring that aide effectiveness indicators andof the aid; notes that this is to take place through effective monitoring mechanisms, agreed upon by both donors and the Afghan Government, are in place;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Notes that, as widely reported in the press and in the US House of Representatives report "Warlord, Inc.", the US military in Afghanistan has outsourced most of its logistics to private contractors, who in turn subcontract the protection of military convoys to local Afghan security providers, with disastrous consequences;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Fears that these errors have fuelled the resurgence of the Taliban in over halcertain parts of the country, exacerbating the deterioration in security;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Believes, too, that all other that when the Afghan State has shown capacity to take responsibility for the entire country and when stability and prosperity have been consolidated, more and more issues should be left to the will and capacity of the Afghan people themselves;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Calls on the EU to support the peace process unreservedly, allowing the Karzai Government full autonomenough flexibility in its choice of dialogue partners, but insisting that the Afghan Constitution and respect for fundamental human rights form the overall legal and political framework for the peace process;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48
48. Draws attention to the many different police training missions present on the ground, and to the funding being invested in police training, with little to show for it; ; calls on all relevant actors to closely coordinate in order to avoid unnecessary duplication and to fulfill complementary tasks at strategic and operational levels;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
Paragraph 49
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
Paragraph 52
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55 a (new)
Paragraph 55 a (new)
55 a. Commends EUPOL's initiative to cooperate closely with NATO in areas where EUPOL has specific expertise, for example in the setting-up of a Staff College to train the leadership of the ANP, in starting a Female Training Centre in Bamiyan, and in developing the Afghan Police Training Teams (APTTs);
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59
Paragraph 59
59. Notes, however, that the opium problem was not considered a priority by the Bush Administration, which preferred to cooperate with the warlords in the name of the war on terrorduction is still a major problem, and calls on the EU to assist in making the Afghan economy less dependent on the production of opium, for example by abolishing EU export subsidies, which have led to the dumping of EU products on other non-EU countries' markets by making local agricultural products uncompetitive and manufactured industrial goods uneconomical;