8 Amendments of Göran FÄRM related to 2009/2216(INI)
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas guaranteeing peace, security and stability in the region is essential for the improvement of the standard of living, for the achievement of democratic standards and, the respect for human rights for all, the rule of law, the improvement of the standard of living, and to maximise regional and macro- regional development opportunities,
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Fully supports the Minsk Group Co- chairs’ mediation, the Madrid Principles and the Moscow Declaration; is, in this regard, in full agreement with the important declaration made by the presidents of the Minsk Group Co-chair countries France, the USA and Russia on 10 July 2009 on the margins of the G8 Summit in L’Aquila; condemns the idea of a military solution and calls on both sides to avoid militant rhetoric; furthermore calls on both sides to show more ambitionArmenia as well as Azerbaijan to further intensify their efforts in the peace talks and to abandon the tendency to prefer perpetuating the status quo created through military conquests in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions; calls on the international community likewise to show courage and political will to overcome the remaining sticking points which hinder an agreement;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the dynamic pace of the negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that the regular meetings between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan have illustrated over the course of the past year;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the protocols on the establishment of diplomatic relations, border opening and cooperation; calls on both sides to seize this opportunity to mend their relations through ratification and implementation; does not support the introduction of conditions for ratification not mentioned in the protocols, but notes that if implemented, they will have wide- ranging, potentially overall very positive consequences in the region and that they can therefore not be seen in isolation; calls on Armenia, as well as Azerbaijan, to intensify their efforts in the Minsk Co- chairs-led talks on the principles for a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict; stresses that the Armenia-Turkey rapprochement and the Minsk Group negotiations are separate processes that should move forward along their own rationales; notes, however, that progress in one of the two processes could have wide-ranging, potentially very positive consequences in the region as a whole;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the importance of protecting the safety and rights of the ethnic Georgians still living within the breakaway regions, promoting respect for displaced persons’ right of return under safe and dignified conditions, achieving a reduction in the Iron-Curtain character of the de facto borders and obtaining possibilities for the EU and other international actors to assist people within the two regions; underlines the need for more clearly identified short- and medium-term objectives in this respect; encourages Georgia to keep up the important work on assisting internally displaced persons within its territory;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Considers the Geneva discussions on Georgia to be of great importance, as they provide the only forum in which all sides to the conflict are represented and three major international actors - the EU, the OSCE and the UN - work in close cooperation for the security and stability of the region;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers democratisation, good governance, the rule of law and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, the rights of minorities and the rule of law to be basic principles for and of peaceful and stable democratic states;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Takes note of the current EU involvement in conflict resolution processes in the region and believes that the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty justifies a more prominent role for the EU; welcomes the work of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia and calls for increased EU action to persuade Russia and the relevant de facto authorities to stop blocking the EUMM from entering South Ossetia and Abkhazia; considers that the EU now has the opportunity to play a greater role in the solution of the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict and could do so by participating in the negotiations through the establishment of an EU mandate for the French Co-chair of the Minsk Group,collaborating closely with the Minsk Group, through the Special Representative for the South Caucasus by standing ready to launch reconstruction aid programmes and by supporting civil- society projects that aim to promote reconciliation and contacts between individuals in the region;