6 Amendments of Nirj DEVA related to 2008/2111(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) considers that this formal position should be regarded by the Permanent Representations of EU Member States in New York as a binding political platform to be used in negotiations with other countries, where necessary leaving individual Member States free to diverge from the common position in so far as such divergence is dictated by their nationally determined priorities,
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point h
Paragraph 1 – point h
(h) welcomes the resumption of the activities of the Working Group on the revitalisation of the UN General Assembly tasked with identifying ways to enhance the Assembly’s role, authority, effectiveness and efficiency, and calls on the EU Member States to promote, in this context, a strengthening of the role of the President of the General Assembly, matched by the allocation of adequate financial, human and infrastructural resources, and the establishment of more systematic cooperation between the General Assembly, the Secretary-General and the UN Security Council, in order to increase the latter’s accountability and legitimacy,
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
(ha) reminds Member States that the UN is an unelected institution, with no popular mandate and no democratic accountability; therefore believes that, whilst international cooperation between countries is generally a good thing, in the interests of defending the principles of democracy the EU should be more assertive in recognising the greater moral authority of its own democratic sovereign states and very cautious about implying that the UN – an institution prone to corruption – somehow better represents the interests of the peoples of Europe than their own elected governments,
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point m
Paragraph 1 – point m
(m) calls on Member States to arrive at a more cohesive position on the reform of the UN Security Council – one which, whilst maintaining the ultimate objective, within a reformed United Nations, of one permanent seat for the European Union (an objective which should not be achieved at the expense of those EU Member States that are members of the UN Security Council in their own right), aims in the meantime at augmenting the weight of the Union in a manner which is commensurate with the EU’s contribution to UN peacekeeping operations and to UN development assistance,
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point n
Paragraph 1 – point n
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point o a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point o a (new)