Debates

Thursday, 16 December 2010 - Strasbourg

6.4. Human rights in the world 2009 and EU policy on the matter (A7-0339/2010, Laima Liucija Andrikienė) (vote)

– After the vote on Amendment 12:

  Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris (PPE). – (IT) Madam President, what some fellow Members are trying to suggest – since it is Thursday and this is the last vote – is that if you just say ‘approved’ or ‘rejected’, that will be fine. There is no need to say ‘452 voted; 53 against; 22 in favour; and so on and so forth’.

– Before the vote on paragraph 54:

  Richard Howitt (S&D). – Madam President, it is a factual issue. We simply wish to remove the words ‘in Croatia’. I do not believe it is controversial with the other groups.

(The oral amendment was accepted)

– Before the vote on Amendment 25:

  Hannes Swoboda (S&D). – (DE) Madam President, because it is not yet indicated in our voting list, I just wanted to point out that the second part of this motion and the next each have a free vote. Thank you.

– Before the vote on Amendment 7:

  Barbara Lochbihler (Verts/ALE). – Madam President, there are two additions to the text. After ‘list of individuals responsible for’, insert ‘severe’. Then amend the next phrase to read: ‘human rights violations such as torture, censorship, rape and extra-judicial executions in Iran’.

(The oral amendment was accepted)

  Laima Liucija Andrikienė, rapporteur. – Madam President, we have an oral amendment to Amendment 7. The text will read as follows: ‘Urges the Commission to draw up a list of individuals responsible for severe human rights violations, such as torture, censorship, rape and extra-judicial executions, in Iran, particularly after the 2009 elections, and to consider imposing sanctions on them in the form of asset freezes and travel bans’.

(The oral amendment was accepted)

– Before the vote on paragraph 140:

  Laima Liucija Andrikienė, rapporteur. – Madam President, as there are some positive developments in Russia, we would like to amend the sentence which starts with: ‘regrets that so far, all Strategy-31 demonstrations have been refused permission by the authorities’. The proposal is to replace the words ‘so far’ by ‘except for the very last one on 31 October 2010’.

(The oral amendment was accepted)