15. Preparations for the Russian State Duma elections in December (debate)

Verbatim reports

Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: Preparations for the Russian State Duma elections in December

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: Ria Oomen-Ruijten, on behalf of the PPE Group, and Knut Fleckenstein, on behalf of the S&D Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Isabelle DURANT
Vice-President

The following spoke: Marek Henryk Migalski to put a blue-card question to Knut Fleckenstein, who replied, Kristiina Ojuland, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Jacek Olgierd Kurski, on behalf of the ECR Group, Werner Schulz, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Béla Kovács, Non-attached Member, Traian Ungureanu, Marek Henryk Migalski, Jaroslav Paška to put a blue-card question to Traian Ungureanu, who replied, Werner Schulz to put a blue-card question to Marek Henryk Migalski, who replied, and Zuzana Roithová.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Inese Vaidere, Bastiaan Belder and Jaroslav Paška.

The following spoke: Catherine Ashton.

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

- Rebecca Harms, Werner Schulz, Bart Staes and Raül Romeva i Rueda, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the preparations for the Russian State Duma elections in December (B7-0396/2011);

- Elmar Brok, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Ioannis Kasoulides, Alojz Peterle, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Cristian Dan Preda, Michael Gahler, Vytautas Landsbergis, Krzysztof Lisek, Traian Ungureanu, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Inese Vaidere, Jacek Protasiewicz, Zuzana Roithová and Giovanni La Via, on behalf of the PPE Group, on the preparations for the Russian State Duma elections in December 2011 (B7-0448/2011);

- Kristiina Ojuland, Marielle De Sarnez, Leonidas Donskis, Marietje Schaake, Graham Watson, Guy Verhofstadt, Fiona Hall, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff and Edward McMillan-Scott, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the preparations for the Russian State Duma elections in December (B7-0450/2011);

- Charles Tannock, Ryszard Czarnecki, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Tadeusz Cymański, Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Marek Henryk Migalski and Janusz Wojciechowski, on behalf of the ECR Group, on the preparations for the Russian State Duma elections in December (B7-0451/2011);

- Hannes Swoboda, Véronique De Keyser, Knut Fleckenstein, Kristian Vigenin and Pino Arlacchi, on behalf of the S&D Group, on the preparations for the Russian State Duma elections in December (B7-0452/2011).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 7.7.2011, item 7.4.