12. Cuba (debate)

CRE

Council and Commission statements: Cuba

Diego López Garrido (President-in-Office of the Council) and Andris Piebalgs (Member of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, on behalf of the PPE Group, Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García, on behalf of the S&D Group, Renate Weber, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Edvard Kožušník, on behalf of the ECR Group, Willy Meyer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, and Andreas Mölzer, Non-attached Member.

IN THE CHAIR: Isabelle DURANT
Vice-President

The following spoke: Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa, Emine Bozkurt, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Ilda Figueiredo, Bogusław Sonik, Richard Howitt, Louis Michel, Marek Henryk Migalski, Jiří Maštálka, Mario Mauro, María Muñiz De Urquiza, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Francisco José Millán Mon, Antonio Masip Hidalgo and Fiorello Provera.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Michael Gahler, João Ferreira, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Gesine Meissner, Franz Obermayr, Alf Svensson, Anna Záborská and Angelika Werthmann.

The following spoke: Diego López Garrido and Andris Piebalgs.

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

- José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Francisco José Millán Mon and Bogusław Sonik, on behalf of the PPE Group, on Cuba (B7-0169/2010);

- Fiorello Provera and Lorenzo Fontana, on behalf of the EFD Group, on Cuba (B7-0170/2010);

- Adrian Severin, Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García and Emine Bozkurt, on behalf of the S&D Group, on prisoners of conscience in Cuba (B7-0174/2010);

- Renate Weber and Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on Cuba (B7-0175/2010);

- Charles Tannock, Edvard Kožušník, Jacek Olgierd Kurski, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Adam Bielan and Ryszard Czarnecki, on behalf of the ECR Group, on Cuba – the case of Orlando Zapata Tamayo (B7-0176/2010);

- Willy Meyer, Jacky Hénin, Ilda Figueiredo, Patrick Le Hyaric, Marie-Christine Vergiat, Sabine Lösing and Jürgen Klute, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo in Cuba (B7-0177/2010);

- Franziska Katharina Brantner and Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo in Cuba (B7-0178/2010).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 11.3.2010, item 8.1.

(The sitting was suspended at 17.25 pending Question Time and resumed at 18.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Diana WALLIS
Vice-President