IN THE CHAIR: Anni PODIMATA
Vice-President

13. Situation in Syria (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 Syria

Villy Søvndal (President-in-Office of the Council) made the statement on behalf of Catherine Ashton (High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission).

The following spoke: José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, on behalf of the PPE Group, Véronique De Keyser, on behalf of the S&D Group, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Nirj Deva, Hélène Flautre, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Charles Tannock, on behalf of the ECR Group, Willy Meyer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the EFD Group, Franz Obermayr, Non-attached Member, Ioannis Kasoulides, Ana Gomes, Marietje Schaake and Malika Benarab-Attou.

IN THE CHAIR: Georgios PAPASTAMKOS
Vice-President

The following spoke: Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Takis Hadjigeorgiou, Elmar Brok, Saïd El Khadraoui, Rui Tavares, Marisa Matias, Jacek Włosowicz, Mário David, Marita Ulvskog, Krzysztof Lisek, María Muñiz De Urquiza, Arnaud Danjean, Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler, Michael Gahler, Boris Zala, Andrzej Grzyb, Corina Creţu, Peter Šťastný, Paweł Zalewski, Jacek Protasiewicz, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, György Schöpflin and Monica Luisa Macovei.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Kristiina Ojuland, Diane Dodds and Andreas Mölzer.

The following spoke: Villy Søvndal.

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

- Charles Tannock, Sajjad Karim, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Ryszard Czarnecki and Valdemar Tomaševski, on behalf of the ECR Group, on the situation in Syria (2012/2543(RSP)) (B7-0068/2012);

- Véronique De Keyser, Libor Rouček, Pino Arlacchi, Emine Bozkurt, Harlem Désir, Ana Gomes, Roberto Gualtieri, Richard Howitt, María Muñiz De Urquiza, Raimon Obiols, Vincent Peillon and Carmen Romero López, on behalf of the S&D Group, on the situation in Syria (2012/2543(RSP)) (B7-0069/2012);

- José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Ioannis Kasoulides, Elmar Brok, Cristian Dan Preda, Arnaud Danjean, Mario Mauro, Mário David, Andrzej Grzyb, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Peter Šťastný, Roberta Angelilli, Nadezhda Neynsky, Tokia Saïfi, Michael Gahler, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Monica Luisa Macovei, Simon Busuttil, Elena Băsescu, Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, Krzysztof Lisek and Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, on behalf of the PPE Group, on the situation in Syria (2012/2543(RSP)) (B7-0070/2012);

- Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Hélène Flautre, Franziska Katharina Brantner, Reinhard Bütikofer, Malika Benarab-Attou, Margrete Auken, Catherine Grèze, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Judith Sargentini, Ulrike Lunacek and Rui Tavares, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on Syria (2012/2543(RSP)) (B7-0072/2012);

- Willy Meyer, Sabine Lösing, Younous Omarjee, Jacky Hénin and Takis Hadjigeorgiou, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the situation in Syria (2012/2543(RSP)) (B7-0073/2012);

- Marietje Schaake, Louis Michel, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Edward McMillan-Scott, Marielle de Sarnez, Graham Watson, Kristiina Ojuland, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Sonia Alfano and Antonyia Parvanova, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the situation in Syria (2012/2543(RSP)) (B7-0074/2012).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 16.2.2012, item 8.9.