10. Belarus (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: Belarus

Cecilia Malmström (President-in-Office of the Council) and Benita Ferrero-Waldner (Member of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Jacek Protasiewicz, on behalf of the PPE Group, Kristian Vigenin, on behalf of the S&D Group, Ivars Godmanis, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Werner Schulz, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Valdemar Tomaševski, on behalf of the ECR Group, Jiří Maštálka, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Fiorello Provera, on behalf of the EFD Group, Peter Šťastný, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Paweł Robert Kowal, Bastiaan Belder and Konrad Szymański.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Paul Rübig, Marek Siwiec, Charles Tannock, Andreas Mölzer and Filip Kaczmarek.

The following spoke: Cecilia Malmström and Karel De Gucht (Member of the Commission).

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

- Fiorello Provera and Rolandas Paksas, on behalf of the EFD Group, on Belarus (B7-0248/2009)

- Adrian Severin, Kristian Vigenin, Justas Vincas Paleckis and Marek Siwiec, on behalf of the S&D Group, on Belarus (B7-0250/2009)

- Elmar Brok, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Ioannis Kasoulides and Jacek Protasiewicz, on behalf of the PPE Group on Belarus (B7-0251/2009)

- Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Ivars Godmanis and Kristiina Ojuland, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on Belarus (B7-0253/2009)

- Rebecca Harms, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Elisabeth Schroedter, Werner Schulz, Barbara Lochbihler and Heidi Hautala, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on Belarus (B7-0254/2009)

- Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Charles Tannock, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Ryszard Czarnecki, Paweł Robert Kowal, Marek Henryk Migalski, Mirosław Piotrowski, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Konrad Szymański and Adam Bielan, on behalf of the ECR Group, on Belarus (B7-0256/2009).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 17.12.2009, item 7.4.

IN THE CHAIR: Pál SCHMITT
Vice-President