IN THE CHAIR: Jerzy BUZEK
President

12. Situation in Belarus (debate)

Verbatim reports

Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: Situation in Belarus

Catherine Ashton (Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy) made the statement.

The following spoke: Jacek Protasiewicz, on behalf of the PPE Group, Kristian Vigenin, on behalf of the S&D Group, who also replied to a blue-card question from Marek Henryk Migalski, Kristiina Ojuland, on behalf of the ALDE Group, and Heidi Hautala, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Stavros LAMBRINIDIS
Vice-President

The following spoke: Ryszard Czarnecki, on behalf of the ECR Group, Helmut Scholz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the EFD Group, Traian Ungureanu, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Werner Schulz, Marek Henryk Migalski, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Richard Howitt, Elisabeth Schroedter, Edvard Kožušník and Jacek Olgierd Kurski.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Seán Kelly, Andrzej Grzyb, Kyriakos Mavronikolas, Charles Tannock, Alfreds Rubiks, Andreas Mölzer, Jarosław Kalinowski, Elena Băsescu, Krzysztof Lisek, Peter Šťastný, Sari Essayah and Piotr Borys.

The following spoke: Catherine Ashton.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 110(2):

- Elmar Brok, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Ioannis Kasoulides, Jacek Protasiewicz, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Elena Băsescu, Piotr Borys, Michael Gahler, Andrzej Grzyb, Gunnar Hökmark, Tunne Kelam, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Krzysztof Lisek, Cristian Dan Preda, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Peter Šťastný, László Tőkés, Traian Ungureanu, Corien Wortmann-Kool, Paweł Zalewski and Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, on behalf of the PPE Group, on the situation in Belarus (B7-0044/2011);

- Adrian Severin, Kristian Vigenin, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Marek Siwiec and Richard Howitt, on behalf of the S&D Group, on the situation in Belarus (B7-0046/2011);

- Kristiina Ojuland, Marietje Schaake, Leonidas Donskis, Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff and Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the situation in Belarus (B7-0047/2011);

- Charles Tannock, Marek Henryk Migalski, Konrad Szymański, Edvard Kožušník, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Adam Bielan, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Ryszard Czarnecki, Janusz Wojciechowski, Mirosław Piotrowski, Jacek Olgierd Kurski and Tadeusz Cymański, on behalf of the ECR Group, on the situation in Belarus (B7-0053/2011);

- Helmut Scholz, Rui Tavares, Marisa Matias, Marie-Christine Vergiat and Cornelia Ernst, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the presidential elections in Belarus (B7-0055/2011);

- Rebecca Harms, Elisabeth Schroedter, Werner Schulz and Heidi Hautala, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the situation in Belarus (B7-0057/2011).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 20.1.2011, item 7.3.