7 Amendments of Vittorio AGNOLETTO related to 2008/2031(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas, with regard to international relations and the promotion of the political objectives included in the various founding Treaties, the European Union obtains more meaningful results when it proposes 'positive measures' to its partners on economic and trade issues, and 'political measures to support and encourage' political processes designed to promote more democracy and the rule of law in a given country,
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. urges the Commission and the Member States not to propose association agreements - even with human rights clauses - to governments of countries where massive human rights violations are being committed, according to reports by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that often, developing countries upon which sanctions have been imposed often do not have the necessary resources tofinancial and human resources to defend their own position in an appeal to the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Mechanism and; calls on the Commission to take action inat the WTO to change this state of affairensure that such countries have access to existing appeal procedures;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes also that sanctions can have symbolic value as an expression of the EU's moral condemnation of the actions of the regime to which sanctions are applied, thus giving added visibility and credibility to EU foreign policy; considers that that credibility is vitiated by an obvious policy of double standards which ensures that the same kind of breaches of international law are not reflected in the same kind of 'restrictive measures';
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Considers that a sanctions policy leads de facto to the isolation of the country concerned but should under no circumstances isolate the population; stresses, therefore, that any sanctions taken against government authorOpposes the application, in all circumstances, of blanket, indiscriminate sanctions to any country, since this approach simply entails the total isolation of the population and not of the elities swhould systematically be coupled with political and financial support for civil society in the relevant countryse anti-democratic behaviour, breaching the founding principles of the United Nations, it is intended to punish;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses, in this context, the political importance of the quite simply disastrous and bankrupt historical experience of the policy of sanctions against Iraq that the United States imposed on the international community; points out, in this connection, that hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians died as a result of the direct and collateral effects of that embargo;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Notes that both the autonomous EU anti-terrorist sanctions and the EU implementation of Security CouncilStresses the legal importance and political significance of the recent rulings by the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance concerning the 'EU anti- terrorist sanctions ablacklist', which have ordered the subject of several cases before the Court of First Instance and the Court of Justiceremoval from those lists of organisations which have been included on them in a legally irregular manner, in contravention of human rights and the principles of the rule of law;