14. Banning cluster munitions (debate)

Verbatim reports

Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: Banning cluster munitions

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

The following spoke: Michael Gahler, on behalf of the PPE Group, Roberto Gualtieri, on behalf of the S&D Group, Marietje Schaake, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Ulrike Lunacek, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, and Sabine Lösing, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group.

The following spoke: Androulla Vassiliou.

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

- Ulrike Lunacek, Reinhard Bütikofer, Tarja Cronberg, Barbara Lochbihler, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Carl Schlyter, Keith Taylor and Malika Benarab-Attou, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on banning cluster munitions (B7-0588/2011);

- Marietje Schaake, Elizabeth Lynne, Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, Leonidas Donskis, Kristiina Ojuland, Sonia Alfano, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Jelko Kacin and Robert Rochefort, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on banning cluster munitions (B7-0589/2011);

- Sabine Lösing, Willy Meyer, Nikolaos Chountis, Bairbre de Brún, Takis Hadjigeorgiou, Ilda Figueiredo and Alfreds Rubiks, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on banning cluster munitions (B7-0590/2011);

- Geoffrey Van Orden, on behalf of the ECR Group, on banning cluster munitions (B7-0591/2011);

- José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Michael Gahler, Arnaud Danjean, Anna Ibrisagic, Tunne Kelam and Roberta Angelilli, on behalf of the PPE Group, on banning cluster munitions (B7-0592/2011);

- Roberto Gualtieri, Richard Howitt, Kristian Vigenin and Pino Arlacchi, on behalf of the S&D Group, on Banning Cluster Munitions (B7-0593/2011).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 17.11.2011, item 6.6.