6. Invasion of Ukraine by Russia (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: Invasion of Ukraine by Russia (2014/2627(RSP))

The President, on behalf of Parliament, welcomed Petro Poroshenko, Member of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada and Co-Chair of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, who had taken his seat in the distinguished visitors' gallery.

The President reiterated Parliament's support for the Ukrainian people and for the freedom, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.

Dimitrios Kourkoulas (President-in-Office of the Council) and José Manuel Barroso (President of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, on behalf of the PPE Group, Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the S&D Group, Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Rebecca Harms, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, on behalf of the ECR Group, Nikola Vuljanić, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Jacek Olgierd Kurski, on behalf of the EFD Group, Andreas Mölzer, Non-attached Member, Elmar Brok, Libor Rouček, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Mark Demesmaeker, Charles Tannock, Rolandas Paksas, Adrian Severin, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Ana Gomes, Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Paweł Robert Kowal, Ewald Stadler, Arnaud Danjean, Knut Fleckenstein, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Krzysztof Lisek, Emine Bozkurt, Michael Gahler, Francisco José Millán Mon, Eduard Kukan, Cristian Dan Preda, Davor Ivo Stier and György Schöpflin.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Sandra Kalniete, Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Phil Bennion, Tarja Cronberg, Ruža Tomašić, Charalampos Angourakis, Andrew Henry William Brons, Kinga Gál, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Graham Watson, Tatjana Ždanoka and Paul Murphy.

The following spoke: Štefan Füle (Member of the Commission) and Dimitrios Kourkoulas.

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

- Martin Callanan, Charles Tannock, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Paweł Robert Kowal, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Ryszard Czarnecki, Adam Bielan, Ruža Tomašić, Marek Henryk Migalski and Valdemar Tomaševski, on behalf of the ECR Group, on the invasion of Ukraine by Russia (2014/2627(RSP)) (B7-0263/2014);

- José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Elmar Brok, Mairead McGuinness, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Roberta Angelilli, Sophie Auconie, Elena Băsescu, Ivo Belet, Jerzy Buzek, Arnaud Danjean, Mário David, Anne Delvaux, Michael Gahler, Andrzej Grzyb, Gunnar Hökmark, Anna Ibrisagic, Tunne Kelam, Andrey Kovatchev, Jan Kozłowski, Eduard Kukan, Krzysztof Lisek, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Monica Luisa Macovei, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Alojz Peterle, Andrej Plenković, Bernd Posselt, Cristian Dan Preda, György Schöpflin, Davor Ivo Stier, Dubravka Šuica, Inese Vaidere and Philippe Juvin, on behalf of the PPE Group, on the invasion of Ukraine by Russia (2014/2627(RSP)) (B7-0264/2014);

- Hannes Swoboda, Libor Rouček, Ana Gomes, Marek Siwiec, Tonino Picula, Knut Fleckenstein, Evgeni Kirilov, Maria Eleni Koppa, Liisa Jaakonsaari, Boris Zala, Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler, Victor Boştinaru, Ivari Padar, Emine Bozkurt and Jo Leinen, on behalf of the S&D Group, on the invasion of Ukraine by Russia (2014/2627(RSP)) (B7-0265/2014);

- Rebecca Harms, Mark Demesmaeker, Werner Schulz, Tarja Cronberg, Ulrike Lunacek, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Nikos Chrysogelos and Helga Trüpel, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the invasion of Ukraine by Russia (2014/2627(RSP)) (B7-0266/2014);

- Guy Verhofstadt, Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, Marielle de Sarnez, Louis Michel, Marietje Schaake, Graham Watson, Leonidas Donskis, Ivo Vajgl, Sarah Ludford, Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Jan Mulder, Robert Rochefort, Olle Schmidt and Nathalie Griesbeck, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the invasion of Ukraine by Russia (2014/2627(RSP)) (B7-0267/2014);

- Nikola Vuljanić, Marie-Christine Vergiat, Younous Omarjee and Patrick Le Hyaric, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on Ukraine (2014/2627(RSP)) (B7-0268/2014).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 13.3.2014, item 14.12.

(The sitting was suspended for a short period until voting time.)

IN THE CHAIR: Rainer WIELAND
Vice-President