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23 Amendments of Anna IBRISAGIC related to 2009/2217(INI)

Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
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,
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
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,
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas, with regard to the EU aid contribution to Afghanistan, Carl Bildt, in his capacity as Council President, stated before Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs in December 2009 that "We have no idea what the Union as a collectivity is doing in Afghanistan... We are spending more than a billion euros a year..., virtually uncoordinated",deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
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;
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that the cost of eliminating poverty in Afghanistan is equivalent to the cost of five days of warfare;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Notes, too, that the cost of waging war for one week would provide 6 000 schools, enough to ensure a future without illiteracy for all children in Afghanistan;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
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;
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
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;
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Is equally appalled by the fact that, since US and NATO military logistics follow similar lines, European taxpayers could end up funding the Taliban through the very entities that are supposed to combat them;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Urges, therefore, NATO and all coalition forces in Afghanistan to return to a situation whereby they provide their own military supply chain, as soon as practicable;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
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;
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Believes, too, that this, plus the poor performance of international aid and of the Afghan government in delivering it, and the increased use of lethal force by coalition troops, has further alienated ordinary Afghans;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
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;
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
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;
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
45. Stresses, too, that these resources belong exclusively to the people of Afghanistan, and that "protection" of these assets can never be used as an excuse for the permanent presence of foreign troops on Afghan soil;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
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;
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
49. Believes that the vagueness of EUPOL's remit and the uncertainty of its achievements to date prevent it from acquiring the legitimacy it deserves;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
51. Believes that one of the main factors behind the ineffectiveness of overall training has been the practice, predominantly by the US, of relying on private contractors to train the police;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
52. Notes that, while the EU and its Member States do not share the US approach, their commitment to the creation of a professional Afghan police force risks being compromised by the prevalence of practices such as the "fast- track" approach (poor vetting of recruits, six weeks of training with no textbooks because of trainee illiteracy, minimal field training, recruits then given a badge, uniform and gun and sent out on patrol) implemented by a few big US security companies;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
54. Recommends unequivocally, therefore, that responsibility for police training no longer be carried out by private contractors;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
55. Proposes that a large-scale training programme be launched and placed, in the first instance, under NATO command, and that EUPOL and national police mission staff be integrated into this new training mission, thereby eliminating duplication, waste and fragmentation;deleted
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
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);
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
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;
2010/10/07
Committee: AFET