Activities of Emilio MENÉNDEZ del VALLE related to 2012/2143(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT with a proposal for a European Parliament recommendation to the Council on the UN principle of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (‘R2P’) PDF (192 KB) DOC (127 KB)
Amendments (20)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 19 February 2009 on the European Security Strategy and ESDP,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 b (new)
Citation 1 b (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 11 May 2011 on ‘the EU as a global actor: its role in multilateral organisations’,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
– having regard to the Brazilian initiative submitted to the United Nations on 9 September 2011 entitled ‘Responsibility while protecting: elements for the development and promotion of a concept’,
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the principle of R2P is based on three pillars: (I) the protection responsibilities of each individual statestate bears the primary responsibility to protect its population from genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing; (II) the international assistance and capacity- bucommunity must assist states in fulfildling to assist states; (III) a timely and decisive collective response; heir protection obligations; (III) when a state manifestly fails to protect its population or is in fact a perpetrator of these crimes, the international community has a responsibility to take collective action;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas an actual case of violence or threats of violence against civilians must be deemed to be a threat to global peace and security;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas, in cases where the Security Council has authorised the use of legitimate force, violence, damage and institutional disruption should be kept to a minimum;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas, in such cases, legitimate force should only ever be used in a prudent, proportionate and limited manner;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas, if the R2P doctrine to be receive widespread support among UN member states, it must be used to guard against, prevent or halt possible genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes or crimes against humanity, but never as a pretext for regime change;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the most effective form of prevention lies in the promotion of good governance, human security, rule of law, inclusiveness, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, gender equality, and democratic values and practices;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas a more consequent implementation of R2P's prevention component (R2prevent), including mediation measures and preventive diplomacy at an early stage, would reduce the potential for conflicts and help avoid their escalation and thus might help prevent international intervention under the responsibility to react (R2react);
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas more recent experiences with specific crises such as those in Sri Lanka, Ivory Coast, Libya and Syria have produced mixed results in terms of the international capacity and a lack of common political will to prevent or stop genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity committed by national and local authorities or non-state actors;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas a narrow but deep approach to implementing R2P should restrict its application to the four mass atrocity crimes and violations specified and should exclude the use of the principle to obtain humanitarian access; whereas humanitarian action should not be used as a substitutn excuse for political action, and whereas humanitarian space needs to be respected by all actors involved;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) to adapt policy planning, operational concepts and capability development goals within the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) for the Union's ability to fully implement the R2P;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
(fa) to launch and promote the EU internal debate on the reform of the United Nations Security Council, which is the only internationally legitimate body that can sanction R2P interventions without the consent of the target state;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
Paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) to advise the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to adopt a voluntary code of conduct to limit the use of the right of veto to cases other than where there is a major humanitarian crisis;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
Paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) to work towards establishing R2P as a new norm of international law, within the scope agreed to by UN member states in the 2005 World Summit;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point a b (new)
Paragraph 2 – point a b (new)
(ab) to advise the Security Council that enshrining the R2P, now an emerging standard, as a standard of international law would not limit its decision-making capacity;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point a c (new)
Paragraph 2 – point a c (new)
(ac) to call on the Security Council to adopt the Brazilian initiative on ‘responsibility while protecting’, which lays down a set of fundamental principles, guidelines and procedures with a view to ensuring that the R2P is as effective as possible and causes the least possible harm;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point a d (new)
Paragraph 2 – point a d (new)
(ad) to call on the five permanent members of the Security Council – in close coordination with the Secretary General – to promote the R2P doctrine, particularly ‘responsibility while protecting’, given that the latter initiative provides guarantees which may persuade countries that are currently reticent about or opposed to the R2P doctrine of its usefulness as a key instrument in bringing about fair and decent international relations in which neocolonial ambitions play no part;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point a e (new)
Paragraph 2 – point a e (new)
(ae) to urge the Security Council, particularly in its dealings with the BRICs (some of which aspire to become permanent members of the Security Council of a reformed UN), to stress the importance of the aforementioned values, guarantees and requirements enshrined in the ‘responsibility while protecting’ initiative;