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16.6.2023
Official Journal of the European Union
C 214/57 Wednesday 18 January 2023
— having regard to the seventh progress report of 20 June 2022 on the implementation of the common set of proposals endorsed by EU and NATO Councils on 6 December 2016 and 5 December 2017, — having regard to the relevant reports and recommendations adopted by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA), — having regard to the EU-United States summit statement of 15 June 2021 entitled ‘Towards a renewed Transatlantic partnership’, — having regard to the Joint Statement by the Secretary of State of the United States of America and the VP/HR of 3 December 2021 on the launch of the EU-US security and defence dialogue as well as to the subsequent meetings of this dialogue, — having regard to Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine, its illegal invasion and annexation of Crimea and the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions, as well as the occupation of Georgia’s regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and the Republic of Moldova’s region of Transnistria, — having regard to new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), space capabilities and quantum computing, which present new opportunities for humanity, but also create new challenges in defence and foreign policy that require a clear strategy and consensus among allies, — having regard to the Charter of the United Nations, — having regard to the Charter of the United Nations, in particular its Article 2.4 prohibiting the use of force and Article 51 on the inherent right to individual and collective self-defence, — having regard to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), — having regard to UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 (2000), 1889 (2013), 2122 (2013), 2242 (2015) and 2493 (2019) on Women, Peace and Security and Resolutions 2250 (2015), 2419 (2018) and 2535 (2020) on Youth, Peace and Security, — having regard tο the UN Security Council resolutions concerning Cyprus, — having regard to the Helsinki Final Act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe of 1975, — having regard to its resolution of 12 September 2018 on autonomous weapon systems (15), — having regard to its resolution of 11 December 2018 on military mobility (16), — having regard to its resolution of 12 March 2019 on building EU capacity on conflict prevention and mediation (17), — having regard to its position of 26 November 2019 on the proposal for a Council directive amending Directive 2006/112/EC on the common system of value added tax and Directive 2008/118/EC concerning the general arrangements for excise duty as regards defence effort within the Union framework (18),
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433, 23.12.2019, p. 86.
388, 13.11.2020, p. 22.
23, 21.1.2021, p. 16.
232, 16.6.2021, p. 71.