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On the escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
11.2.2025 B100102/2025 }
B100109/2025 }
B100125/2025 }
B100127/2025 }
B100129/2025 }
B100133/2025 } RC1/Am. 1
Amendment 1
Thierry Mariani
on behalf of the PfE Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE, The Left
on the escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
| Joint motion for a resolution | Amendment |
| 15. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the international financial institutions to freeze direct budget support to Rwanda subject to it meeting conditions on, among other things, humanitarian access and the breaking of all links with M23; urges the Commission and the Member States to freeze their military and security assistance to the Rwandan armed forces to ensure that they do not contribute directly or indirectly to abusive military operations in the eastern DRC; calls strongly, in particular, for a review of the EU’s renewed support under the EPF to ensure that troops deployed in northern Mozambique and benefiting from EPF support, as well as their commanders, have been properly vetted and have not been involved in the eastern DRC or in other human rights violations, with a view to suspending the support if it is found to contribute directly or indirectly to abusive military operations in the eastern DRC; | 15. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the international financial institutions to freeze all bilateral assistance to Rwanda subject to it meeting conditions on, among other things, humanitarian access and the breaking of all links with M23; urges the Commission and the Member States to freeze their military and security assistance to the Rwandan armed forces to ensure that they do not contribute directly or indirectly to abusive military operations in the eastern DRC; calls strongly, in particular, for a review of the EU’s renewed support under the EPF to ensure that troops deployed in northern Mozambique and benefiting from EPF support, as well as their commanders, have been properly vetted and have not been involved in the eastern DRC or in other human rights violations, with a view to suspending the support if it is found to contribute directly or indirectly to abusive military operations in the eastern DRC; |
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11.2.2025 B100102/2025 }
B100109/2025 }
B100125/2025 }
B100127/2025 }
B100129/2025 }
B100133/2025 } RC1/Am. 2
Amendment 2
Thierry Mariani
on behalf of the PfE Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE, The Left
on the escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
| Joint motion for a resolution | Amendment |
| 17. Urges the Council to expand sanctions against senior M23 commanders, leaders of other armed groups and senior officials from the DRC and Rwanda, including Major-General Eugene Nkubito, the commander of the RDF’s 3rd Division, Major-General Ruki Karusisi, RDF Special Force Commander, and Major-General Emmy K. Ruvusha, Commander of the Rwanda Security Forces, all identified in the June 2024 report of the UN Group of Experts and in reports from other countries across the region as being responsible for or complicit in recent serious abuses by their forces or those for which they have command responsibility; | 17. Urges the Council to expand sanctions against senior M23 commanders, leaders of other armed groups and senior officials from the DRC and Rwanda, including Major-General Eugene Nkubito, the commander of the RDF’s 3rd Division, Major-General Ruki Karusisi, RDF Special Force Commander, and Major-General Emmy K. Ruvusha, Commander of the Rwanda Security Forces, all identified in the June 2024 report of the UN Group of Experts and in reports from other countries across the region as being responsible for or complicit in recent serious abuses by their forces or those for which they have command responsibility; calls also for the issuing of EU visas to Rwanda’s officials and diplomats and members of its government to be restricted until President Kagame has withdrawn Rwandan troops from the territory of the DRC; |
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11.2.2025 B100102/2025 }
B100109/2025 }
B100125/2025 }
B100127/2025 }
B100129/2025 }
B100133/2025 } RC1/Am. 3
Amendment 3
Thierry Mariani
on behalf of the PfE Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE, The Left
on the escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
| Joint motion for a resolution | Amendment |
| 20a. Calls for the EU, Rwanda’s neighbouring countries and Rwanda’s main trading partners to put in place a trade embargo for all minerals, including processed minerals, exported from Rwanda, until the RDF and the rebel group supported by Rwanda have been definitively withdrawn from the territory of the DRC; |
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