European Parliament resolution on the submission or co-sponsorship with the United States of a resolution, at the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, deploring the human rights situation in the People's Republic of China (PRC)
Date: 2001-04-05
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: China, UN Commission, human rights, the EU's international role

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Calls on the Commission and Council to act without delay to ensure recognition of the right of
countries affected by AIDS, AIDS-induced illnesses or other major epidemics, in accordance with a list to
be drawn up by the WHO, to manufacture and market the necessary medicines or to import them without
having to pay intellectual and industrial property-related fees;

31.
Calls on the LDCs and their partner countries to apply the ILO Conventions and in particular, if it
has not already been done, to ratify ILO Convention C 182 of 17 June 1999 concerning the prohibition of
child labour and to work for the immediate elimination of child labour, while promoting, as an internal
factor of development, compulsory education over the period of childhood and adolescence;

32.
Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the international community to strengthen their
conflict-prevention capacity in financial, manpower and organisational terms, paying particular attention
to arms-trading and to LDCs(cid:146) expenditure on arms, as years of development effort can be rapidly wiped
out by wars and armed conflict, which, in the case of the LDCs, is particularly damaging;

33.
Urges the Member States, the international organisations and the Commission to take due account
of the aspects relating to peacemaking, peace-building and peacekeeping at all stages (planning, execution
and assessment) of programmes in countries which have recently emerged from an armed conflict or in
countries in process of emerging from such a conflict and still having to deal with displaced persons and
refugee populations;

Urges the Commission, the Member States and the international community to take particular
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account, in the context of conflict prevention and management, of the plight of child soldiers and their
need of physical and psychological rehabilitation, and to take all possible action to prevent the recurrence
of this phenomenon;

Is convinced that the causes of armed conflicts can be economic inequality, social injustice, the
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absence of democracy, environmental degradation and conflicts of interest on the local, regional and inter-
national level, and believes that conflict prevention must be defined in such a way as to find solutions to
those structural causes:

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the Secretary-

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General of the United Nations.

16. United Nations Human Rights Commission and the People(cid:146)s Republic of

China

B5-0269, 0285 and 0294/2001

European Parliament resolution on the submission or co-sponsorship with the United States of a
resolution, at the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva,
deploring the human rights situation in the People(cid:146)s Republic of China (PRC)

The European Parliament,

(cid:129) having regard to the conclusions of the General Affairs Council of 19 March 2001 which expressed
concern at the serious violations of human rights in the People(cid:146)s Republic of China, especially in
relation to the non-action motion on behalf of the PRC,

(cid:129) having regard to its previous resolutions on the human rights situation in the People(cid:146)s Republic of
China, on Tibet and on the Union(cid:146)s existing priorities and recommendations for the March 2001
session of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva,

(cid:129) having regard to the conclusions of the EU-PRC summit meeting of 21 December 1999 and the

Council conclusions of 22 January 2001 on the EU-PRC dialogue on human rights,

(cid:129) having regard to Article 18 on freedom of religion of the United Nations Universal Declaration of

Human Rights,

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B.

concerned that, having signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Inter-
national Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the People(cid:146)s Republic of China has still
not finalised the ratification and implementation processes,

concerned at the lack of respect for fundamental freedoms in China, including freedom of expression,
religion and association, at the ongoing violations of the human rights of pro-democracy activists and
proponents of free trade unions, and at the system of administrative detention, the situation with
regard to the human rights of prisoners, the cases of torture and the frequent use of the death penalty,

C.

concerned at the violation of religious and cultural rights in Tibet and Xinnjiang and Inner Mongolia,

D. deploring the fact that the decisions taken at the General Affairs Council of 19 March 2001 did not

fully take account of the requests of the European Parliament,

E.

stressing that the US has decided to table a draft resolution on Human Rights in China at the 57th
session of the UN Commission on Human Rights,

F. whereas the EU has a duty to promote, within the appropriate international bodies, any initiative
whose purpose is to denounce any violation of human rights in general and recourse to the death
penalty in particular,

1.
Urges the Member States to submit or co-sponsor with the United States a resolution, at the 57th
session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, deploring the state of human rights in the
People(cid:146)s Republic of China;

Asks the Presidency-in-Office to do its utmost to coordinate the Member States(cid:146) positions in line with

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this resolution;

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the governments of the Member

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States and the UN Commission on Human Rights.

17. Kyoto Conference objectives

B5-0267, 0270, 0278, 0287 and 0295/2001

European Parliament resolution on the Kyoto Conference objectives

The European Parliament,

(cid:129) having regard to Articles 2 and 6 of the EC Treaty, according to which environmental protection
requirements must be integrated into Community sectoral policies with the aim of promoting environ-
mentally sustainable economic development,

(cid:129) having regard to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

adopted at the Rio Earth Summit,

(cid:129) having regard to the December 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC,

(cid:129) having regard to the conclusions of the Environment Council held on 22 June 2000,

(cid:129) having regard to the sixth Conference of Parties (CPO6) held in The Hague in November 2000,

(cid:129) having regard to its resolutions relating to climate change of 9 February 1999 (1), 7 October 1999 (2)

and 26 October 2000 (3),

(1) OJ C 150, 28.5.1999, p. 59.
(2) OJ C 107, 13.4.2000, p. 112.
(3)
(cid:145)Texts Adopted(cid:146), Item 13.