6. Southern Neighbourhood, and Libya in particular, including humanitarian aspects (debate)

Verbatim reports

Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: Southern Neighbourhood, and Libya in particular, including humanitarian aspects

Catherine Ashton (Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy) made the statement.

The following spoke: José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, on behalf of the PPE Group, Martin Schulz, on behalf of the S&D Group, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Charles Tannock, on behalf of the ECR Group, Miguel Portas, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the EFD Group, Bruno Gollnisch, Non-attached Member, Ioannis Kasoulides, Ana Gomes, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Mirosław Piotrowski and Gerard Batten.

IN THE CHAIR: Gianni PITTELLA
Vice-President

The following spoke: Elmar Brok, who also replied to a blue-card question from Miguel Portas, Adrian Severin, Marielle De Sarnez, Derk Jan Eppink, Mario Mauro, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Kristiina Ojuland, Paweł Robert Kowal, Michael Gahler, Sylvie Guillaume, Edward McMillan-Scott, Tokia Saïfi, Pier Antonio Panzeri, Cristian Dan Preda, Simon Busuttil, Ernst Strasser, Krzysztof Lisek, Tunne Kelam, Nadezhda Neynsky, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra and Salvatore Iacolino.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Arnaud Danjean, Richard Howitt, Sonia Alfano, Franziska Katharina Brantner, Ilda Figueiredo and Mario Borghezio.

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On behalf of Parliament, the President welcomed a delegation from the Transitional National Council of Libya, headed by Mahmoud Jebril Ibrahim El-Welfali and Ali Aziz Al-Eisawi.

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The following spoke: Catherine Ashton.

The following spoke: Edward McMillan-Scott, Mario Mauro and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who put a number of supplementary questions to Catherine Ashton, to which she replied.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 110(2):

- Charles Tannock, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Tomasz Piotr Poręba and Marek Henryk Migalski, on behalf of the ECR Group, on the current situation in Libya (B7-0169/2011);

- Martin Schulz, Ana Gomes, Kader Arif, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, María Muñiz De Urquiza, Roberto Gualtieri, Vincent Peillon, Harlem Désir, Sylvie Guillaume and Kristian Vigenin, on behalf of the S&D Group, on Southern Neighbourhood, and Libya in particular (B7-0170/2011);

- Kristiina Ojuland, Marielle De Sarnez, Marietje Schaake, Sonia Alfano, Leonidas Donskis, Edward McMillan-Scott, Alexandra Thein and Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on Southern Neighbourhood, and Libya in particular, including humanitarian aspects (B7-0171/2011);

- Franziska Katharina Brantner, Hélène Flautre, Margrete Auken, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Judith Sargentini, Catherine Grèze, Yannick Jadot, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, Bart Staes, Emilie Turunen, Isabelle Durant, Rebecca Harms and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the Southern Neighbourhood, and Libya in particular, including humanitarian aspects (B7-0172/2011);

- José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Elmar Brok, Ioannis Kasoulides, Cristian Dan Preda, Mario Mauro, Marietta Giannakou, Hans-Gert Pöttering, Gabriele Albertini, Tunne Kelam, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Elena Băsescu, Michael Gahler, Alf Svensson, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Inese Vaidere, Vito Bonsignore, Simon Busuttil, Joachim Zeller, Tokia Saïfi, Michèle Striffler, Andrzej Grzyb, Krzysztof Lisek, Vytautas Landsbergis, Artur Zasada, Salvatore Iacolino, Dominique Vlasto, Alfredo Pallone, Philippe Juvin, Traian Ungureanu, Joanna Katarzyna Skrzydlewska, Ernst Strasser, Roberta Angelilli, Véronique Mathieu, Nadezhda Neynsky and Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, on behalf of the PPE Group, on the situation in Libya (B7-0173/2011);

- Miguel Portas, Marie-Christine Vergiat, Gabriele Zimmer, Willy Meyer, Helmut Scholz, Rui Tavares, Patrick Le Hyaric, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Takis Hadjigeorgiou, Marisa Matias and Eva-Britt Svensson, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the Southern Neighbourhood, and Libya in particular, including humanitarian aspects (B7-0174/2011).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 10.3.2011, item 9.2.