Traduction de «Vice-présidente de l'Eglise » (Français → Anglais) :

Joint statement by High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini and Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn on the situation in Turkey // Brussels, 16 July 2016

F. whereas the political upheaval has impelled Burundi’s Catholic Church to withdraw the priests it had appointed to help organise the elections, saying that it ‘cannot support elections that are full of shortcomings’; whereas two top election officials out of five members of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI), namely the commission’s vice-president Spes Caritas Ndironkeye and the member responsible for management and finance, Illuminata Ndabahagamye, have resigned and fled the country; whereas Aimé Nkurunziza, mem ...[+++]ber of parliament and chair of the parliament’s Committee on Political and Foreign Affairs and Governance, has also fled the country, saying that he does not support the government’s election-rigging; whereas Burundi’s second Vice-President, Gervais Rufyikiri, himself left for exile in Belgium on 17 June 2015;

77. Is concerned about current political developments in Egypt after the military takeover of 3 July 2013, about the political polarisation, serious economic difficulties, and the situation regarding respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in the country, and about security in the region, with special regard to Sinai; condemns in the clearest possible terms all acts of violence, including attacks on Coptic churches, and believes that the recent operations of the Egyptian security forces have been disproportionate and have resulted in an unacceptably large number of deaths and injuries; calls on the Egyptian Government to refrain from such action; urges all political parties to engage in a genuinely inclusive dialogue in order t ...[+++]o restore a democratic process responding to the legitimate requests and aspirations of the Egyptian people; stresses the need for a national reconciliation of all political and social forces, including the moderate components of the Muslim Brotherhood, as a key element in order to move forward the democratic transition which entails the organisation of presidential and parliamentary elections; stresses that the EU, through the HR/VP, could be in a position to encourage a dialogue between the main political actors in the country conducive to the establishment of a government of national unity to prepare elections; in particular, recommends that the HR/VP send a clear message that the illegalisation of the Muslim Brotherhood would jeopardise democratic inclusion and compromise the prospects of returning to democracy;

48. Welcomes the adoption of relevant legislation for the protection and promotion of communities and of the religious and cultural heritage, and the successful taking-over of responsibility by Kosovo for the security of most cultural and religious sites of the Serbian Orthodox Church; particularly welcomes, in this connection, the creation of a special unit within the Kosovo police that will be exclusively dedicated to this task; calls for further implementation of the relevant legislation, particularly the Law on Communities; deplores the Kosovo authorities’ refusal to let Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic visit Kosovo and attend t ...[+++]he Orthodox Christmas celebration in Gracanica; welcomes, in this respect, the meeting between Serbian President Nikolic and Kosovo President Jahjaga that took place in Brussels on 6 February 2013 in an open and constructive atmosphere under the auspices of Vice-President/High Representative Catherine Ashton, in the context of the efforts to normalise relations between the two sides;

14a.Urges the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission to comply with the obligation to have a regular dialogue with Churches according to Article 17(3) TFEU, so as to ensure that the issue of the persecution of Christians is a priority issue which is discussed on a systematic basis;

– having regard to the statement by the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy following the attack against worshipers at Coptic Church in Alexandria, Egypt on 1 January 2011,