8 Amendments of Frithjof SCHMIDT related to 2008/2111(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
– having regard to the 2009 Review Conference of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court,
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point o a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point o a (new)
(oa) believes that the upcoming effects of climate change will make natural disasters, affecting millions of people, ever more frequent in the coming years, and that the New Orleans and Burma experiences indicate that more has to be done on the international and national level to prepare governments for efficient disaster management; calls on the Council to support the creation of a disaster counselling unit at UN level, possibly under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross – as a neutral body –, in order to offer systematic screening and advice to governments on effective disaster preparedness,
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point o b (new) (plus new heading)
Paragraph 1 – point o b (new) (plus new heading)
The EU and the UN Millennium Development Goals (ob) deeply concerned that the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals will be made even more difficult by the current dramatic food crisis, in which rising prices are rendering staple foods inaccessible for the poor in many developing countries, and by the impact of climate change – the costs of adaptation and mitigation being estimated by UN experts at between USD 50 and 100 billion per year, reminds the Member States of their commitments to significantly increase financing for official development aid (ODA) step by step in order to reach 0.56% of the collective gross national income by 2010, so that the EU as a whole reaches 0.7% in 2015,
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point o c (new)
Paragraph 1 – point o c (new)
(oc) deeply worried by the fact that, instead, the EU Member States have reduced official development aid in 2007 compared to 2006, calls on the Council and Member States to place the achievement of the MDGs and the increase in the financing needed to attain them at the core of their priorities at the UN,
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point o d (new)
Paragraph 1 – point o d (new)
(od) recalls that the Court of First Instance of the European Communities and the Council of Europe have found that the UN system of blacklists imposing targeted sanctions on certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism (originating with Security Council Resolution 1267 (1999) and Security Council Resolution 1373 (2001)) violates the fundamental principles of human rights and the rule of law; calls particularly on those Member States of the European Union which are permanent or non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council to fight for a substantial improvement of the sanctions system in order to bring it into line with the obligations imposed by the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (UNCCPR), in particular by means of the introduction of an appeal mechanism,
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point r
Paragraph 1 – point r
(r) calls on all EU Member States to remain engaged in the preparations for the 2009 Durban Review Conference and ensure that the Conference provides the opportunity for all stakeholders to renew their determination and commitments to fight racism, racial and caste discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and to adopt concrete benchmarks in view of the eradication of racism,
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point -y b (new) (plus new heading)
Paragraph 1 – point -y b (new) (plus new heading)
The EU and UN activities in the field of security (-yb) believes that the EU should launch a debate within the UN prior to the ICC review conference with a view to achieving an agreement on the still outstanding definition of the crime of aggression and the conditions under which the Court could exercise its jurisdiction, as provided for in Article 5(2) of the Rome Statute,
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point aa
Paragraph 1 – point aa
(aa) is concerned byabout the stalemate in disarmament-related talks and negotiations, particularly with regard to cluster bombs, depleted uranium munitions and the arms trade; urges the Council to bring these talks back onto the UN agenda on such issues as nuclear testing and biological weapons; nevertheless recognises that the 63rd UN session offers the EU an excellent opportunity to show leadership in promoting the conclusion of international treaties such as that banning cluster munitions, the Arms Trade Treaty and an international treaty imposing a global ban on (depleted) uranium weapons; urges the Council to make use of this year’s 40th anniversary of the Non-Proliferation Treaty to start to work hard towards the conclusion of the International Treaty banning nuclear weapons as proposed by a group of Nobel prize-winners and world leaders; last but not least, reminds the EU and the UN that they must continue to work hard for the strengthening of the UN programme on small arms and light weapons and for the expansion and strengthening of the Ottawa Treaty banning landmines,