Activities of Laima Liucija ANDRIKIENĖ related to 2010/2020(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT Report with a proposal for a European Parliament recommendation to the Council on the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly PDF (208 KB) DOC (124 KB)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the current structure of the UN Security Council does not reflect the realities and needs of the 21st century as emerging powers such as Japan, India or Brazil and entire continents such as Africa or the Arab world are not represented in the UN Security Council; whereas the UN Secretary General regards reform of the Security Council as part of the ongoing efforts to make this indispensable organ more broadly representative and efficient,
Amendment 5 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the EU and its Member States are the largest contributors to the UN system providing around 40 per cent of the assessed budget of the UN, over 40 per cent of the peacekeeping costs and 12 per cent of troops, as well as over half of the core funding of the UN funds and programmes,
Amendment 8 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the EU will have to succeed the EC as observer to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and other UN bodies, as a party to a number of UN conventions, and, in a few exceptional cases such as the FAO, as a member,
Amendment 9 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the EU Member States recently split over whether to attend the Durban review conference on racism; whereas differences emerged in the EU’s scrutiny of China’s human rights performance in the UNHRC and in the vote on the Goldstone report; whereas all this has been to the detriment of the EU’s influence and its capacity to assert its values in the UN,
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point l a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point l a (new)
(la) to support the initiative of the EU Member States to adopt a UN resolution on sea-dumped chemical weapons and the threat they present to ecology, health, security and the economy, as well as on the need to strengthen international and regional cooperation on this issue and to exchange information, experience and technologies on a voluntary basis,
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point -p (new)
Paragraph 1 – point -p (new)
(-p) to continue to foster EU-UN cooperation in the area of post-crisis recovery and to aim at comprehensive approaches to sustaining peace, preventing conflicts and addressing a wide range of political, economic, social and environmental conditions that contribute to the escalation of conflicts in societies,
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point w
Paragraph 1 – point w
(w) to achieve, in early and substantive dialogue with EU Member States and the UN membership, an efficient proactive negotiation strategy as well as a common position on the review of the Human Rights Council; to strengthen the Third Committee, with its universal membership, as a communication channel for the human rights cases discussed by the HR, taking into account that the 2011 UNHRC review is split into two parts: the review of the working methods will be conducted in Geneva, while the status of the body will be debated in New York; to strengthen the Third Committee, with its universal membership, as a communication channel for the human rights cases discussed by the HRC, bearing in mind that the Third Committee, with its universal membership, could also offset the UNHRC’s shortcomings just as the UN GA does with regard to decisions by the UN SC,