32 Amendments of Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON related to 2010/2020(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the UN system, with the legitimacy that stems from its global membership, continues tomust be central for shaping and enhancing global decision- making and facing global challenges through effective multilateralism based on international law, the principles enshrined in the UN Charter as well as the common commitment to the implementation of the goals adopted at the UN World Summit 2005,
Amendment 6 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas increasing and uncontrolled nuclear proliferationnuclear power poses an ever greater threat to the free world; whereas the reinforcement of all three pillars of the Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), namely non-proliferation, disarmament and cooperation on the civilian use of nuclear energy, willa gradual and of necessity reciprocal relinquishment of nuclear power in both the military and the civil spheres is a sine qua non, and must be central at the upcoming NPT Review Conference,
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas, by supporting the Millennium Declaration on development in the year 2000, the European Union undertook to halve the incidence of extreme poverty worldwide by the year 2015, while concentrating its efforts on the progress of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and whereas these are minimum and conspicuously imperfect objectives, and achieving them cannot in itself be regarded as cause for satisfaction,
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas a new impetus ismust be given by the institutional innovations on the gender architecture within the UN system in order to achieve a holistic and coherent approach to gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment,
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas negotiations on a comprehensive and legally binding international post-2012 agreement on climate change should result in an agreement in Mexico City in December 2010; whereas climate change may exacerbate the potential for conflicts over natural resources; and whereas the peoples’ summit on climate justice to be held in Cochabamba on 19-22 April 2010 is an initiative that should be taken into account in these negotiations,
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) to strengthen, through enhanced dialogue with key partners, effective multilateralism in order to build a stronger UN; to foster the common, coherent and consistent EU approach at the UN that third parties expect, that is to say an approach that is coherent, consistent and, above all, mindful of the common interest,
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) to continue to project itself within the UN system as an honest broker between different membership groups in order to promote common understanding and greater cohesion across the three pillars of the United Nations; to actively promote and systematically address the importance of effectivea multilateralism that is respectful of the sovereign equality of states in its bilateral dialogues;,
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point c
Paragraph 1 – point c
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) to ensure that the Union’s values and interests are represented in an effective and coherent way in the UN system; in this context, to strive to ensure that nominations from EU Member States for important UN posts, which have been agreed amongst EU Member Sgeneral interest of the peoples of the world tatkes, receive the Union’s full support; to project itself as a cohesive force that is able to deliver, especially on significant votes, in order to arrive at unified positions priority over all else in the UN system,
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) to establish, in cooperation with the new US administrationwith all the Member States, a common agenda of short and long-term goals with regard to multilateral issues within the UN framework,
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
(f) to seek a more substantive dialogue with emergingall global and regional players, like China, India and Brazil, with the aim of finding common solutions to global challenges within a multilateral framework that is respectful of the sovereign equality of states,
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point g
Paragraph 1 – point g
(g) to improve, given the EU’s new potential for internal coordination and external representation, the Union’s long- term planning specifically with the Union’s long-term planning specifically with regard to social and environmental issues, and also with a view to pregpard toing for major upcoming UN events such as the MDG Review and the NPT Review Conference in 2010, as well as the reviews of the Human Rights Council and the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in 2011, and the Mexico climate summit,
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point h
Paragraph 1 – point h
(h) to take a lead in the current debate on global governance and to ensure that clear bridges exist between the work of the G20 and the UN, as thee primacy of the UN, the only legitimate bodyframework for global action;,
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point j
Paragraph 1 – point j
(j) to step up efforts to democratise and revitalise the UN General Assembly in concerted action with key partners by translating suggestions from the Ad Hoc Working Groups and recommendations by UN officials such as the President of the 64th UNGA into concrete stepscivil society in order to be able in the long term to enhance the Assembly’s role, authority, performance and efficiency, as well as to increase the transparency of its work,
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point k
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) to contribute to implementing the a genuinew gender architecture as well as relevant institutional innovations with a view to creating a more coherent composite entity as soon as possible that works towards promoting gender equality and the protection and empowerment of women, including in conflict and post- crisis situations; to make it its mission to set an example in this field and to ensure equality within the European Union, including within the Commission,
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point l
Paragraph 1 – point l
(l) to fully support the efforts ofask the UN Secretary General to better redefine the notion of the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), to successfully implement R2P withplacing the UN system and to stress its importance in preventing conflictsemphasis on the co-responsibility of sovereign states for preventing conflict and avoiding all interference,
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point m
Paragraph 1 – point m
(m) to contribute to enhancing UN peacekeeping capacities in order to diminish the risk of overstretching and to promote the incorporation of the peacebuilding concept into peacemaking action; to take a lead in finding a new horizon for UN peacekeeping by emphasising civilian-military synergies and by improving coordination between various regional partners, in particular between the EU and the African Unioninsist that the UN continue to be strictly the only framework for peacekeeping initiatives and to condemn any so-called peacekeeping initiative taken without the agreement or against the advice of the UN,
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point n
Paragraph 1 – point n
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point o
Paragraph 1 – point o
(o) to strive for a coherent EU position and actions with regard to thn appropriate review of the PBC in 2011; to support efforts to expand the role of the PBC in facilitating and ensuring the sustainability of peace agreements and to strengthen its advisory role vis-à-vis the Security Council,
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point p
Paragraph 1 – point p
(p) to work coherently, consistently and efficiently with EU Member States towards achieving a successful outcome of the 2010 NPT Review Conference; to commit to the aim of completegradual nuclear disarmament in line with UN Security Council resolution 1887 endorsing the goal of a nuclear- weapons-free world once the conditions are met; to deepen its dialogue with all nuclear powers to pursue a common agenda aimed at progressive reduction of the nuclear warheads stockpile whilst improving the means for verification; to support the US administration in its declared commitment to global nuclear disarmament encouraged by President Obama’s vision ofbased on strict reciprocity between all states at all stages, with the aim of achieving in the long term a world without nuclear weapons,
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point q
Paragraph 1 – point q
(q) to strengthen cooperation and coordination with key partners in the fight against terrorism on the basis of full respect for international law and human rights, and to support the UN’s multilateral counter-terrorism efforts as well as the effective implementation of its Global Counter-Terrorism Strategywhile respecting the sovereignty of states and human rights, including those relating to personal data; to cooperate closely when theever lives of hostages are at riskare at stake; to reject any attempt to use the terrorist threat for interventionist purposes with no other aim but to serve the interests of European elites;
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point r
Paragraph 1 – point r
(r) to exercise leadership in strengthening the effectiveness of UN development assistance since the current fragmentation may lead to progressivecombat resolutely any attempt at marginalisation of the UN as a primary actor in development; to insist on a more coherent UN programming and operational framework to help maximise the impact of UN development assistanceensure that its development assistance has a real and beneficial impact in terms of the interests of all nations,
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point s
Paragraph 1 – point s
(s) to reassert the principle that development aid policy shouldmust be designed in the framework of an equitable partnership with recipient countries and with absolute concern for social and environmental justice,
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point t
Paragraph 1 – point t
(t) in preparation for the MDG Review Conference, to reconfirm its commitment to the MDG targets to be reached by 2015; to urge all partners to do the same, pointing to the fact that donors are falling short on their 2005 pledges on annual aid flows and that overall progress has been too slow for most of the goals to be met by 2015, which are in any case minimal; to call as a matter of urgency for the MDGs to be completed and, in particular, for cancellation of the Southern countries’ debt and recognition of the environmental debt of the Northern countries vis-à-vis the Southern countries to be included in them,
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point u
Paragraph 1 – point u
(u) to insist not to use MDG funds to tackle that the MDGs should be revised ambitiously and withe consequences of climate change for the poor; instead, to mobilise additional funds to reach goals where progress has been extremely limited, such as on MDG5 (maternal health); to focus attention on reaching particularly important MDGs;cern for the general interests of the world, and that additional funds should be allocated to fighting climate change; stresses in this context the usefulness of the Ecuadorian Government’s Yasuni-ITT initiative and of the international community’s common financial contribution mechanism, which is based on the UN principle of shared responsibility for environmental problems,
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point v
Paragraph 1 – point v
(v) to urge the Vice-President/High Representative to spdeakl with one voice on behalf of all EU Member States when addressing human rights issues, and also to call on each Member State to emphasise those unified EU positions in order to give them more weighthuman rights in an impartial fashion, and not to give way to political bias,
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point y
Paragraph 1 – point y
(y) to strongly advocate that the UNGA continueencourage the UNGA to address country -specific situations in impartial resolutions while working to avoid the use of ‘No Action Motions’,
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point aa
Paragraph 1 – point aa
(aa) to strive to empower more wogive women the same responsibilities as men so they can fulfil their vital role in contributing to sustainable peace, security and reconciliation as well as to promote their participation in mediation and conflict resolution, also in view of the upcoming 10th anniversary of UNSC Resolution 1325; to encourage thosee European Union and its EU Member States who have not yeto become more active in this respect and to produce national action plans (NAPs) to implement the resolution;
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a c
Paragraph 1 – point a c
(ac) to promote athe debate with regard to the forthcoming Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) in Mexico in December 2010 and to start building consensus on the adoption of a newwith the aim of establishing a binding international agreement on climate change for the period post-2012; to promote in this framework the Bolivian initiative of a peoples’ summit for climate justice, which will be a key point in this debate,
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a d
Paragraph 1 – point a d
(ad) to avoid the organisational and structural mistakes of COP15 in Copenhagen, which failed to deliver an international binding agreement, by suggesting specific voting rules, based on significant majorities, in order to facilitate progress in the negotiationsstate the need to set up a United Nations body for the environment;