5 and 6 November 2008 (Brussels)

Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly
Assemblée Parlementaire Euro-Latino Américaine
Asamblea Parlamentaria Euro-Latinoamericana
Assembleia Parlamentar Euro-Latino-Americana
EURO-LATIN AMERICAN PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY
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Committee on Political Affairs, Security and Human Rights
Meeting
Wednesday 5 November 2008, from 5.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Thursday 6 November 2008, from 10.30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Brussels
European Parliament
The meeting began on Wednesday 5 November 2008 at 3.00 p.m., under the chairmanship of
Co-Chair, Mr Fernando Fernández Martín (PE/PPE-DE).
1.
Adoption of agenda
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Adopted as recorded in these minutes.
2.
Approval of minutes
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The minutes of the meeting of 29 April 2008 (Lima) were approved.
3.
Announcements by the Co-Chair
The Co-Chair began by thanking the Members attending the meeting, which was the second
ordinary meeting of the year.
He particularly welcomed the representatives of the Mercosur Parliament who were, for the
second time, taking part in the Assembly and Political Affairs Committee Meetings as
observers. For voting purposes, they had been accredited as members of the Latin American
Parliament representing their respective National Parliaments, and were therefore entitled to
vote.
He then welcomed the representatives of the Economic and Social Committee (EU–LA
relations follow-up Committee), also attending for the second time as observers. He also
reminded the Members that, pursuant to Article 6 of the Assembly's Rules of Procedure, the
EESC also enjoyed permanent observer status (paragraph 1) and, as such, was entitled to
speak in accordance with procedures to be laid down by the Presidency of the Assembly
(paragraph 2).
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He informed the Committee that the consideration of amendments and vote on the joint draft
resolution on the 'Euro-Latin American Charter for Peace and Security' would take place the
following day, 6 November 2008. As a result, the meeting would proceed directly to the
exchange of views on the scheduled Subject for debate: 'Follow up to the results of the V
Summit in Lima'.
4.
Subject for debate: 'Follow up to the results of the V Summit in Lima'
Mrs Nathalie Griesbeck (Co-rapporteur EP/ALDE) and Mr Camilo Brenes (PARLACEN)
gave their views, stressing the progress made, and the difficulties involved in implementing
the decisions taken at the Lima Summit.
The following spoke: Wilson Sánchez Castello (Ecuador, Parlandino), Laura Franco
(Guatemala, Parlacen), Gloria Oquelí (Honduras, President of Parlacen), Paulo Bravo Alencar
(Bolivia, Parlandino), Amilcar Figueiroa (Venezuela, Parlatino), Yenielys Regueiferos
Linares (Cuba, Parlatino), Tito Hoz De Vila (Bolivia, Parlatino) and Nidia Díaz (El Salvador,
Parlacen). The co-rapporteurs, Nathalie Griesbeck and Camilo Brenes, wound up the debate,
presenting their conclusions.
Decision: The Co-Chair asked the co-rapporteurs to update their working documents to
incorporate the results of the debate, and any new elements which were appropriate, so that
the revised working documents could be considered at the next meeting of the Committee
scheduled for April 2009.
5.
Current affairs: Report on the recent electoral observation process in Ecuador
The Co-Chair reminded the Members that Article 24 (2) of the Rules of Procedure laid down
that, on a proposal from the Executive Bureau, the Assembly might decide to send delegations
for the observation of presidential or parliamentary elections at the invitation of the country
concerned providing there are no concerns about security. He said that so as to familiarise the
Members of the Committee with the way such delegations worked, he had invited Mrs Renata
WEBER (ALDE), Chair of the delegation recently sent by the EP to observe the elections in
Ecuador, to report on the holding of the 28 September 2008 referendum. Ms Weber said that
the recent electoral process in Ecuador had been fair and transparent, and asked that an
electoral observation mission be sent to the forthcoming 2009 elections.
The following spoke: Jorge Pizarro Soto (Chile, EuroLat Co-President and President of
Parlatino), Tito Hoz De Villa (Bolivia, Parlatino) and Rosario Green Macías (Mexico JPG)
The meeting adjourned at 6.30 p.m., and resumed on Thursday 6 November, 2008 at 10:30
a.m., under the chairmanship of Co-Chair Mr Camilo Brenes (Panama, PARLACEN).
6.
Consideration of amendments and vote on a joint draft resolution on:
'Euro-Latin American Charter for Peace and Security'
EP Co-rapporteur: Mrs Veronique De Keyser (PSE)
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LAC Co-rapporteur: Mrs Rosario Green Macias (EU-Mexico JPC)
The Co-Chair recalled that the main goal of the meeting was to consider the sixty-nine
amendments, and vote on the draft joint resolution submitted by the co-rapporteurs, following
the wide-ranging discussion which had taken place in Lima in April.
The Co-rapporteurs introduced their joint draft resolution, highlighting their decision not to
deal with migration issues, which were the subject of a specific report by the Assembly's
Committee on Social Affairs: they spoke about the compromise and oral amendments already
drafted. They suggested that, so as to ensure their consistency with the lines of action set out
in the Draft Resolution has adopted in Committee, amendments 32 to 52, concerning the
Annex ('Draft Charter') be considered at the next meeting, and that to this end, a fresh
deadline for amendments to the Draft Charter should be set (without any need for a repetition
of amendments 32 to 52.
The following spoke: Camilo Brenes (Co-Chair), Rosario Green Macias (Co-rapporteur),
Veronique De Keyser (Co-rapporteur) and Yenielys Regueiferos Linares (Cuba, Parlatino).
Decision: The Draft Resolution, with the amendments adopted, was unanimously adopted.
After the vote, the Co-Chair reminded the meeting of the timetable for submitting
amendments in plenary and the timetable for the plenary vote on the Draft Resolution:
- deadline for amendments to the plenary with regard to the Draft Joint Resolution: noon, 30
January 2009;
- deadline for Committee amendments concerning the Annex to the Draft Resolution
containing the articles of the 'Draft Charter': noon, 30 January 2009.
7.
Proposals for Political Affairs, Security and Human Rights Committee Reports
and subjects for debate in 2009
The Co-Chair recalled that, as announced on earlier occasions, in principle the three standing
Committees were entitled to submit only one report each to the plenary sitting.
He therefore proposed that the report on the 'Euro-Latin American Charter for Peace and
Security', voted on by the Committee at its Brussels meeting, should be the report submitted
to the 2009 Ordinary Plenary Sitting, to be held from 6 to 8 April in Europe.
He then invited Members of the Committee to submit proposals for a Subject for Debate
within the Committee's remit.
The following spoke: Wilson Sánchez Castello (Ecuador, Parlandino), Luis Yañez-Barnuevo
García (PSE), Laura Franco (Guatemala, Parlacen) and Gustavo Borsari (Uruguay,
Mercosur).
Decision: The new Subject for Debate would be 'Protection of minorities in Europe and Latin
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America'.
8.
Other business
The following spoke: Wilson Sánchez Castello (Ecuador, Parlandino), Gloria Oquelí
(Honduras, President of Parlacen), Amilear Figueroa (Venezuela, Parlatino), Luis YañezBarnuevo García (PSE), Jorge Pizarro Soto (Chile, EuroLat Co-President and President of
Parlatino), Oscar Núñez Calvo (Costa Rica, Parlatino), and Yenielys Regueiferos Linares
(Cuba, Parlatino).
Decision: It was decided that since the Assembly's Rules of Procedure made no provision for
a declaration on behalf of the Committee, no such declaration would be submitted.
9. Date and place of next meeting
The next ordinary meeting of the Committee on Political Affairs, Security and Human Rights
will be held in Europe from 6-8 April 2009 (place to be established.)
The meeting closed at 6:30 p.m.
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LISTA DE ASISTENCIA/PREZENČNÍ LISTINA/DELTAGERLISTE/ANWESENHEITSLISTE/KOHALOLIJATE NIMEKIRI/
ΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΗ ΠΑΡΟΝΤΩΝ/RECORD OF ATTENDANCE/LISTE DE PRÉSENCE/ELENCO DI PRESENZA/APMEKLĒJUMU
REĢISTRS/DALYVIŲ SĄRAŠAS/JELENLÉTI ÍV/REĠISTRU TA' ATTENDENZA/PRESENTIELIJST/LISTA OBECNOŚCI/
LISTA DE PRESENÇAS/PREZENČNÁ LISTINA/SEZNAM NAVZOČIH/LÄSNÄOLOLISTA/DELTAGARLISTA
Présents/Present
PARLATINO
Amilcar Figueroa (Co-Presidente de la Comisión) (1,2), María de los Angeles Moreno Uriegas (1,2), Oscar
Nuñez Calvo (1,2), Jorge Pizarro Soto (Co-Presidente EuroLat) (1,2), Yenielys Regueiferos Linares (1,2), Tito
Hoz De Vila (1,2)
PARLANDINO
Paulo Bravo Alencar (1,2), Wilson Sánchez Castello (1,2)
PARLACEN
Camilo Brenes (1,2), Armida de López Contreras (1,2), Nidia Díaz (1), Laura Franco (1,2), Gloria Oquelí
(Presidenta del Parlacen) (1,2), Miguel Oviedo (1,2)
COMISION PARLAMENTARIA CONJUNTA EU/CHILE
COMISION PARLAMENTARIA CONJUNTA EU/MEXICO
Rosario Green Macías (Co-Vicepresidenta EuroLat) (1,2)
PARLASUR
Gustavo Borsari (1,2)
EP/PE:
Véronique De Keyser (2), Nathalie Griesbeck (1,2), Fernando Fernández Martín (Co-Presidente de la Comisión)
(1,2), Vladko Todorov Panayotov (2), Raül Romeva i Rueda (2), Inese Vaidere (Co-Vicepresidenta EuroLat) (1)
Subsitutes/Suplentes:
Ryszard Czarnecki (2), Javier Moreno Sánchez (1,2)
At the invitation of the Chairman/Por invitación del presidente
Renate Weber (1,2)
Art. 178.2
Herbert Bösch (1), José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil (2)
Art. 183.3
Vicente Miguel Garcés Ramón (2), Francesco Enrico Speroni (2), Luis Yañez-Barnuevo García (2)
IGUALMENTE PRESENTES/ALSO PRESENT
Otras Instituciones/Other Institutions:
Silvia Brugger (Heinrich Böll Foundation), Jessica Elio (Embassy of Bolivia), Arturo Guzman (Embassy of
Cuba), H. David Harrada D. (Diputado de Bolivia), Patricia Jimenez (Heinrich Böll Foundation), Joseph Karinki
Nyaga (FIDH), José María Zufiaur (CESE), Marcela Ordoñez (Embassy of Columbia), Rodrigo Paz (Embassy
of Bolivia), Beatrice Porres (CESE), Isabel Recavarria Malpartida (CEFIA), Johanna Sánchez (Embassy of the
Dominican Republic), Alejandro Sousa (Embassy of Mexico)
Grupos Políticos/Political Groups
Kerstin Eekman (GUE/NGL), José Antonio Gil de Muro Arenas (PSE), Gaby Küppers (Verts/ALE), Itziar
Munoa Salaverria (ALDE), Mireia Rovira (GUE/NGL), Juan Salafranca (PPE-DE), Kamila Slusarczyk (UEN),
Juana Terron Flores (PSE)
Co-secretariado LAC/LAC Co-secretariat
Pedro Montero (Parlandino), Rubén Véléz Núñez (Parlandino)
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DG EXPO:
Pedro Neves, Anna Caprile, Helena Halldorf-Romero, Pilar Sanmartin Berraquero
DG COMM:
Natalia Dasilva
Co-secretariado PE/EP Co-secretariat
J. Javier Fernandez Fernandez, Pedro Valente da Silva, Gillian Newbury, Juliana Erthal Rodriguez dos Santos,
Maria Angeles Contreras Cortes
Co-secretariado ALC/LAC Co-secretariat
Carlos Augusto Chacon (Parlandino), Roberto Chaparro (JPC EU-Mexico), Pedro Montero (Parlandino),
Orlando Rossi (Parlatino), Rubén Véléz Núnez (Parlandino)
Assistance/Assistant
Francisco Cabral, Edina Bánlaki
Observers/Observadores:
Wolf Grabendorff
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