Translation of "nations unies tout " (French → English) :

14. Welcomes the UN Security Council’s press statement of 18 April 2013 on Syria; calls on the UN Security Council members, in particular Russia and China, to uphold their responsibility to put an end to the violence and repression against the Syrian people, including by adopting a UNSC resolution based on the UNSC press statement of 18 April 2013; calls on the VP/HR to do her utmost to secure the adoption of a UNSC resolution, exerting effective diplomatic pressure on both Russia and China; calls on the EU to continue to explore within the UNSC all options within the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) framework, in close cooperation wit ...[+++]h the US, Turkey and the League of Arab States, in order to assist the Syrian people and to halt the bloodshed; calls for a referral by the UNSC of the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court for a formal investigation; strongly supports the work of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the situation in Syria and welcomes the updated report;

7. Calls on the UN Security Council (UNSC) members, in particular Russia and China, to fulfil their responsibility to put an end to the violence and repression against the Syrian people, inter alia by adopting a UNSC resolution based on the UNSC press statement of 18 April 2013, and to mandate humanitarian aid deliveries in all areas of Syria; calls on the VP/HR to do her utmost to secure the adoption of a UNSC resolution by exerting effective diplomatic pressure on both Russia and China; calls for the EU to continue to explore, within the UNSC, all the options under ...[+++] the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) framework, in close cooperation with the US, Turkey and the League of Arab States, in order to assist the Syrian people and halt the bloodshed; strongly supports the work of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the situation in Syria and welcomes its updated report;

10. Looks forward to the conclusion by the General Assembly of the United Nations of a comprehensive convention on terrorism, based on a clear and agreed definition, respecting human rights and democratic freedoms, containing a reference inter alia to the definitions in the 1999 Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and in UN Security Council Resolution 1566 (2004), and reiterating that actions covered by the twelve earlier anti-terrorism Conventions constitute terrorism, together with a statement that they also constitut ...[+++]e a crime under international law; also encourages more effective cooperation in other priority areas such as confronting organised crime and the illicit trade in small and light arms, and working to eliminate landmines completely;

6. Is of the opinion that the EU, in agreement with the Member States, should be more actively involved in UN programmes (by taking part at the initial stage, when needs are assessed and appropriate responses worked out, and thereafter, when the decisions are implemented) and that the EU should use the intergovernmental conference (IGC) scheduled for 2004 as the occasion on which to clarify the issues surrounding the legal basis for its external action within the context of international law, and should in particular specify and strengthen the Commission's legal status in international institutions and grant it membership status in the speci ...[+++]alised UN agencies in the same way as it is a member of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO); calls, likewise, for the nature of and means available to the Commission delegations to the United Nations to be brought into line with the increasingly important role which they play in implementing EU external action in general, and in the field of development and humanitarian aid in particular, as well as in the area of coordination between the Commission and the 15 Member States, so as to guarantee that EU action in this field is consistent and of global significance;

6. Is of the opinion that the EU, in agreement with the Member States, should be more actively involved in UN programmes (by taking part at the initial stage, when needs are assessed and appropriate responses worked out, and thereafter, when the decisions are implemented) and that the EU should use the intergovernmental conference (IGC) scheduled for 2004 as the occasion on which to clarify the issues surrounding the legal basis for its external action within the context of international law, and should in particular specify and strengthen the Commission’s legal status in international institutions and grant it membership status in the speci ...[+++]alised UN agencies in the same way as it is a member of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO); calls, likewise, for the nature of and means available to the Commission delegations to the United Nations to be brought into line with the increasingly important role which they play in implementing EU external action in general, and in the field of development and humanitarian aid in particular, as well as in the area of coordination between the Commission and the 15 Member States, so as to guarantee that EU action in this field is consistent and of global significance;

* In order to address the problem of insufficient donor co-ordination in post-crisis situations, the "Friends of" approach, in the UN framework, must be strengthened on a more systematic basis while keeping the case-by-case principle.