- Before the vote:

  Alessandro Foglietta (UEN). – (IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like simply to highlight some formal and substantive errors with regard to the translation of the Italian text. For example, in the fourth line of paragraph 3, the Italian text reads ‘clearly recognise the State of Israel’, whereas the English text refers to the ‘State of Israel’s right to exist’. I therefore call for this correction to be made, as I believe it is crucial. The same goes for paragraph 10, in which ‘concrete and positive recommendations’ are mentioned, whereas the English text only mentions ‘concrete’, and not positive, recommendations.

  President. – The English version is deemed authentic. We are going to verify all the other versions and rectify any errors.

- Before the vote on Amendment 1:

  Vytautas Landsbergis (PPE-DE). – Mr President, I would like to suggest a minimum amendment – it affects one word – with maximum content. Line 3 reads: ‘the urge for Hamas to be consistent’. This could be misunderstood and read as a call to destroy Israel consistently. It would be much better for it to be replaced by the word ‘cooperative’. We should urge Hamas to be ‘cooperative’.

(The oral amendment was accepted)

  José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra (PPE-DE). – (ES) When the negotiation was organised amongst the different political groups, it was agreed that no amendments would be tabled; two political groups have tabled amendments.

I would like to say, Mr President, that the oral amendment that we have voted on, which was proposed by Mr Landsbergis and which makes a lot of sense, should not in my view have been put to the vote before a vote on the amendment from the Greens.

I believe, Mr President, that we must firstly vote on the amendments as presented and then see whether an oral amendment by Mr Landsbergis is appropriate.

  President. – With regard to the previous vote, we had accepted the oral amendment, but it was rejected.