4. Debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (announcement of motions for resolutions tabled)

Pursuant to Rule 115, the following Members or political groups had requested that such a debate be held on the following motions for resolutions:

I.   Sudan and the International Criminal Court

- Pasqualina Napoletano, Glenys Kinnock, Ana Maria Gomes, Marie-Arlette Carlotti, Emilio Menéndez del Valle and Josep Borrell Fontelles, on behalf of the PSE Group, on Sudan and the International Criminal Court (ICC) (B6-0240/2008);

- Hélène Flautre, Frithjof Schmidt, Margrete Auken, Mikel Irujo Amezaga and Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, son the situation in Sudan and the International Criminal Court (B6-0254/2008);

- Vittorio Agnoletto, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on Sudan and the ICC (B6-0255/2008);

- Jürgen Schröder, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Colm Burke, Filip Kaczmarek, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Bernd Posselt, Eija-Riitta Korhola and Tunne Kelam, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on Sudan and the International Criminal Court (B6-0256/2008);

- Ryszard Czarnecki, Adam Bielan and Eoin Ryan, on behalf of the UEN Group, on Sudan and the International Criminal Court (ICC) (B6-0257/2008);

- Thierry Cornillet, Marco Cappato, Marielle De Sarnez and Johan Van Hecke, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on Sudan and the International Criminal Court (ICC) (B6-0258/2008).

II.   Detention of political opponents in Belarus

- Pasqualina Napoletano, Jan Marinus Wiersma and Justas Vincas Paleckis, on behalf of the PSE Group, on the situation in Belarus (B6-0239/2008);

- Konrad Szymański, Ryszard Czarnecki, Wojciech Roszkowski, Mieczysław Edmund Janowski, Ewa Tomaszewska, Adam Bielan and Inese Vaidere, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the situation in Belarus (B6-0259/2008);

- Vittorio Agnoletto, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on Belarus (B6-0260/2008);

- Jacek Protasiewicz, Urszula Gacek, Charles Tannock, José Ribeiro e Castro, Filip Kaczmarek, Bernd Posselt, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Tunne Kelam, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on the arrest of political opponents in Belarus (B6-0261/2008);

- Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Eugenijus Gentvilas and Anne E. Jensen, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on arrests of political opponent in Belarus (B6-0263/2008);

- Elisabeth Schroedter and Milan Horáček, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on arrests of political opponents in Belarus (B6-0264/2008).

III.   Rising tension in Burundi

- Pasqualina Napoletano, Alain Hutchinson, Marie-Arlette Carlotti, Glenys Kinnock and Ana Maria Gomes, on behalf of the PSE Group, on the situation in Burundi (B6-0241/2008);

- Raül Romeva i Rueda and Mikel Irujo Amezaga, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on rising tension in Burundi (B6-0265/2008);

- Umberto Guidoni, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the situation in Burundi (B6-0266/2008);

- John Bowis, Jürgen Schröder, Filip Kaczmarek, Bernd Posselt, Eija-Riitta Korhola and Tunne Kelam, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on rising tension in Burundi (B6-0267/2008);

- Ryszard Czarnecki, Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis, Adam Bielan and Ewa Tomaszewska, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the situation in Burundi (B6-0268/2008);

- Johan Van Hecke, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on Burundi (B6-0269/2008).

Speaking time would be allocated in accordance with Rule 142.