8. Situation in the Middle East/Gaza Strip (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: Situation in the Middle East/Gaza Strip

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

The following spoke: José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Martin Schulz, on behalf of the PSE Group, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Cristiana Muscardini, on behalf of the UEN Group, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Luisa Morgantini, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Luca Romagnoli, Non-attached Member, Elmar Brok, Pasqualina Napoletano, Marielle De Sarnez, Roberta Angelilli, Hélène Flautre, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Patrick Louis, Jim Allister, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Hannes Swoboda, Chris Davies, Seán Ó Neachtain, David Hammerstein, Miguel Portas, Kathy Sinnott, Tokia Saïfi, Véronique De Keyser, Frédérique Ries, Feleknas Uca, Vladimír Železný, Gunnar Hökmark, Marek Siwiec, Philippe Morillon, Zbigniew Zaleski, Jelko Kacin, Jana Hybášková, Libor Rouček, Ioannis Kasoulides, Giulietto Chiesa, Stefano Zappalà, Maria Eleni Koppa, Struan Stevenson, Richard Howitt, Michael Gahler, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez and Geoffrey Van Orden.

IN THE CHAIR: Alejo VIDAL-QUADRAS
Vice-President

The following spoke: Proinsias De Rossa, Kinga Gál, Gay Mitchell and Karel Schwarzenberg.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Sajjad Karim, Colm Burke, Nickolay Mladenov, Neena Gill, Marios Matsakis, Christopher Beazley, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Margrete Auken, Peter Šťastný, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Bairbre de Brún, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Hannes Swoboda, on the organisation of business, and Aurelio Juri.

The following spoke: Benita Ferrero-Waldner.

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

- Pasqualina Napoletano and Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the PSE Group, on the situation in the Middle East/Gaza Strip (B6-0051/2009);

- Adamos Adamou, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Monica Frassoni, David Hammerstein, Hélène Flautre, Caroline Lucas, Margrete Auken, Jill Evans, Angelika Beer and Cem Özdemir, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the conflict in the Gaza Strip (B6-0054/2009);

- Joseph Daul, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Elmar Brok, Jana Hybášková, Ioannis Kasoulides and Gunnar Hökmark, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on the situation in the Middle East/Gaza Strip (B6-0056/2009);

- Francis Wurtz, Luisa Morgantini, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Miguel Portas and Feleknas Uca, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the situation in the Middle East/Gaza Strip (B6-0057/2009);

- Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the situation in the Gaza Strip (B6-0058/2009);

- Cristiana Muscardini, Adam Bielan, Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka, Konrad Szymański, Eugenijus Maldeikis, Ryszard Czarnecki and Marcin Libicki, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the situation in the Gaza Strip (B6-0059/2009).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 15.01.2009, item 6.3.