Ausschuss für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten (AFET) - Europäisches Parlament

A delegation of the European Parliament, headed by Elmar Brok, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, met today, 2 November 2016, in New York with António Guterres, the United Nations Secretary-General-designate. The delegation congratulated warmly Mr Guterres for his new appointment and conveyed as well a congratulation letter from President Schulz.
Chairman BROK stated: "As a European with a world view, holding both longstanding UN and strong political experience as Prime Minister and as President of the European Council, Antonio Guterres is best fit for the job!"
The MEPs held an exchange of views on the main challenges the UNSG-designate will face on peace and security in particular in Ukraine and the Middle East, migration and refugees, radicalisation and terrorism, human rights and gender issues. Especially, they discussed the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals as an important instrument for a policy of prevention and development.
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DRAFT RECOMMENDATION on the draft Council decision on the conclusion of the Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, of the other part, on a Framework Agreement between the European Union and the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria on the general principles for the participation of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria in Union programmes
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Pier Antonio Panzeri

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Following the first Jean Monnet Dialogue for Ukraine MEP Mr Elmar Brok, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, and Mr Andriy Parubiy, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, called for the swift completion of the visa liberalisation process in time for the anniversary of Euro-Maidan on 21 November 2016. The statement was made at Jean Monnet House, Bazoches, France 29 October 2016.
Speaker Parubiy stated that " The anniversary ofEuro-Maidan on 21 November 2016 would be an important and symbolic occasion tocomplete the visa liberalisation process."

Chair Mr Brok explained that "The delay incompleting the visa liberalisation process was an internal institutionalproblem within the European Union and not an issue of content about the visaliberalisation."

Chair Mr Brok and Speaker Parubiy jointly called for "TheEU Institutions to find a solution and finalise their work in time to completethe visa liberalisation process by the anniversary of Euro-Maidan on 21November 2016."

Jean Monnet House,Bazoches, France 29 October 2016
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ÄNDERUNGSANTRÄGE 301 – 600 - Entwurf eines Berichts Jahresbericht über Menschenrechte und Demokratie in der Welt 2015 und die Politik der Europäischen Union in diesem Bereich
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten

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ENTWURF EINER EMPFEHLUNG zu dem Entwurf eines Beschlusses des Rates über den Abschluss des Rahmenabkommens über Partnerschaft und Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Europäischen Union und ihren Mitgliedstaaten einerseits und der Mongolei andererseits
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Helmut Scholz

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ÄNDERUNGSANTRÄGE 601 - 866 - Entwurf eines Berichts Jahresbericht über Menschenrechte und Demokratie in der Welt 2015 und die Politik der Europäischen Union in diesem Bereich
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten

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ÄNDERUNGSANTRÄGE 1 - 300 - Entwurf eines Berichts Jahresbericht über Menschenrechte und Demokratie in der Welt 2015 und die Politik der Europäischen Union in diesem Bereich
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten

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AMENDMENTS 1 - 250 - Draft report Addressing refugee and migrant movements: the role of the EU External Action
Committee on Foreign Affairs, Committee on Development

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AMENDMENTS 251 - 547 - Draft report Addressing refugee and migrant movements: the role of EU External Action
Committee on Foreign Affairs, Committee on Development

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OPINION on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Protocol of Accession to the Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Colombia and Peru, of the other part, to take account of the Accession of Ecuador
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Elmar Brok

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OPINION on the draft Council decision on the conclusion of a Protocol to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement establishing a partnership between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Uzbekistan, of the other part, amending the Agreement in order to extend the provisions of the Agreement to bilateral trade in textiles, taking account of the expiry of the bilateral textiles Agreement
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Ulrike Lunacek

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OPINION on the draft Council decision on the conclusion of a Protocol to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement establishing a partnership between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Uzbekistan, of the other part, amending the Agreement in order to extend the provisions of the Agreement to bilateral trade in textiles, taking account of the expiry of the bilateral textiles Agreement
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Elmar Brok

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ENTWURF EINES BERICHTS über eine integrierte Politik der Europäischen Union für den arktischen Raum
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten, Ausschuss für Umweltfragen, öffentliche Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit
Urmas Paet, Sirpa Pietikäinen

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