4. Main aspects of the common foreign and security policy and the common security and defence policy - Situation in Syria and in Camp Ashraf - Report: Albertini - Annual report from the Council to Parliament on the main aspects of CFSP in 2009 - Report: Gualtieri - Development of CSDP following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty - Report: Muñiz De Urquiza - The EU as a global actor: its role in multilateral organisations (debate)

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Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: Main aspects of the common foreign and security policy and the common security and defence policy

Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Situation in Syria and in Camp Ashraf

Report on the annual report from the Council to the European Parliament on the main aspects and basic choices of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) in 2009, presented to the European Parliament in application of Part II, Section G, paragraph 43 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 [2010/2124(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Gabriele Albertini (A7-0168/2011)

Report on the development of the common security and defence policy following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty [2010/2299(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Roberto Gualtieri (A7-0166/2011)

Report on the EU as a global actor: its role in multilateral organisations [2010/2298(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: María Muñiz De Urquiza (A7-0181/2011)

The President made a brief introductory speech.

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

The following spoke: Joseph Daul, on behalf of the PPE Group, Martin Schulz, on behalf of the S&D Group, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Charles Tannock, on behalf of the ECR Group, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Lothar Bisky, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, and Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the EFD Group.

Gabriele Albertini, Roberto Gualtieri and María Muñiz De Urquiza presented their reports.

The following spoke: Catherine Ashton, Jörg Leichtfried (rapporteur for the opinion of the INTA Committee) and Krzysztof Lisek.

IN THE CHAIR: Roberta ANGELILLI
Vice-President

The following spoke: Véronique De Keyser, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Franziska Katharina Brantner, Takis Hadjigeorgiou, Fiorello Provera, Andreas Mölzer, Eduard Kukan, Hannes Swoboda, Andrew Duff, Geoffrey Van Orden, who also replied to a blue-card question by Nicole Sinclaire, Ulrike Lunacek, who also replied to a blue-card question by Nicole Sinclaire, Patrick Le Hyaric, who also replied to a blue-card question by Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Nikolaos Salavrakos, Nicole Sinclaire, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Kristian Vigenin, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Mirosław Piotrowski, Reinhard Bütikofer, Sampo Terho, Béla Kovács, Elmar Brok, Richard Howitt, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Struan Stevenson, David Campbell Bannerman, Mario Mauro and Pier Antonio Panzeri.

IN THE CHAIR: Miguel Angel MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ
Vice-President

The following spoke: Jelko Kacin, Paweł Robert Kowal, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Libor Rouček, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Maria Eleni Koppa, Michael Gahler, Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Francisco José Millán Mon, Marek Siwiec, Arnaud Danjean, Andrey Kovatchev, Alojz Peterle, Alejo Vidal-Quadras and Dominique Baudis.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Anna Ibrisagic, Ana Gomes, Antonyia Parvanova, Heidi Hautala, Peter van Dalen, Ilda Figueiredo, Jaroslav Paška, Andrew Henry William Brons, Marco Scurria and Boris Zala.

The following spoke: Roberto Gualtieri, Gabriele Albertini, María Muñiz De Urquiza and Catherine Ashton.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 11.5.2011, item 5.20, minutes of 11.5.2011, item 5.21 and minutes of 11.5.2011, item 5.22.

(The sitting was suspended for a short time, pending voting time.)