12. Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), cluster bombs and conventional weapons (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: Review conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), which is to take place in 2006

Paula Lehtomäki (President-in-Office of the Council) and Margot Wallström (Vice-President of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Elizabeth Lynne, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Angelika Beer, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Vittorio Agnoletto, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Gerard Batten, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Philip Claeys, Non-attached Member, Achille Occhetto, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Ana Maria Gomes, Paula Lehtomäki and Margot Wallström.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled pursuant to Rule 103(2):

- Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos and José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on the Sixth Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) to be held in Geneva from 20 November to 8 December 2006 (B6-0585/2006);

- Jan Marinus Wiersma, Ana Maria Gomes and Achille Occhetto, on behalf of the PSE Group, on the Convention on the banning of biological and toxin weapons (BTWC), cluster bombs and conventional weapons (B6-0586/2006);

- Tobias Pflüger, Mary Lou McDonald, Adamos Adamou, André Brie, Vittorio Agnoletto and Willy Meyer Pleite, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), cluster bombs and conventional weapons (B6-0587/2006);

- Mogens N.J. Camre, Adam Bielan and Michał Tomasz Kamiński, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the Sixth Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) to be held in Geneva from 20 November to 8 December 2006 (B6-0593/2006);

- Elizabeth Lynne and Marios Matsakis, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the Sixth Review Conference on the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) to be held in Geneva from 20 November to 8 December 2006 (B6-0594/2006);

- Angelika Beer, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on biological weapons and inhumane conventional weapons (the BTWC and CCW Review Conferences in November 2006) and the need to ban cluster munitions (B6-0611/2006).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 16.11.2006, Item 6.3.