13. EU strategy towards Belarus (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: EU strategy towards Belarus

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

The following spoke: Jacek Protasiewicz, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Justas Vincas Paleckis, on behalf of the PSE Group, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Ryszard Czarnecki, on behalf of the UEN Group, Milan Horáček, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Věra Flasarová, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Roberto Fiore, Non-attached Member, Árpád Duka-Zólyomi, Józef Pinior, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, Esther De Lange, Marianne Mikko, Ewa Tomaszewska, Colm Burke and Sylwester Chruszcz

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Zita Pleštinská, Alessandro Battilocchio, Călin Cătălin Chiriţă, Czesław Adam Siekierski and Flaviu Călin Rus.

The following spoke: Alexandr Vondra and Benita Ferrero-Waldner.

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

- Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and Janusz Onyszkiewicz, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the EU strategy towards Belarus (B6-0028/2009);

- Jan Marinus Wiersma, on behalf of the PSE Group, on the EU strategy towards Belarus (B6-0029/2009);

- Elisabeth Schroedter, Hélène Flautre and Milan Horáček, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the EU strategy towards Belarus (B6-0030/2009);

- Konrad Szymański, Adam Bielan, Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka, Wojciech Roszkowski, Ryszard Czarnecki, Inese Vaidere and Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the EU approach towards Belarus (B6-0031/2009);

- Jacek Protasiewicz, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Charles Tannock, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Elmar Brok, Colm Burke, Esther De Lange and Vytautas Landsbergis, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on Belarus (B6-0032/2009).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 15.01.2009, item 6.5.