2. Elections in Belarus (debate)

Verbatim reports

Commission statement: Elections in Belarus

Štefan Füle (Member of the Commission) made the statement.

The following spoke: Filip Kaczmarek, on behalf of the PPE Group, Libor Rouček, on behalf of the S&D Group, Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Marek Henryk Migalski, on behalf of the ECR Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Krzysztof Lisek, Helmut Scholz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the EFD Group, Peter Šťastný, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Nikolaos Salavrakos, Eduard Kukan, Kristian Vigenin, László Tőkés, Andrzej Grzyb and Sari Essayah.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Krzysztof Lisek, Liisa Jaakonsaari, Karin Kadenbach, Ivo Vajgl and Charles Tannock.

The following spoke: Werner Schulz, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group.

The following spoke: Štefan Füle.

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

- Libor Rouček, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Kristian Vigenin, Marek Siwiec and Liisa Jaakonsaari, on behalf of the S&D Group, on the elections in Belarus (B7-0463/2012);

- Charles Tannock, Marek Henryk Migalski, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Ryszard Czarnecki and Tomasz Piotr Poręba, on behalf of the ECR Group, on elections in Belarus (B7-0464/2012);

- Werner Schulz and Elisabeth Schroedter, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on elections in Belarus (B7-0465/2012);

- José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Filip Kaczmarek, Elmar Brok, Krzysztof Lisek, Ioannis Kasoulides, Tunne Kelam, Rafał Trzaskowski, Elena Băsescu, Jacek Protasiewicz, Cristian Dan Preda, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Eduard Kukan, Monica Luisa Macovei, Marietta Giannakou, Inese Vaidere, Andrzej Grzyb, Daniel Caspary, Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa, Paweł Zalewski and Bogusław Sonik, on behalf of the PPE Group, on the elections in Belarus (B7-0466/2012);

- Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, Marietje Schaake, Leonidas Donskis, Kristiina Ojuland, Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Norica Nicolai, Sonia Alfano, Robert Rochefort, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Marielle de Sarnez, Graham Watson and Hannu Takkula, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the elections in Belarus (B7-0471/2012);

- Helmut Scholz and Marie-Christine Vergiat, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on Elections in Belarus (B7-0472/2012).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 26.10.2012, item 6.11.