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Amendment 1

Marc Botenga

on behalf of The Left Group

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PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE

Targeted attacks against Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: defending religious freedom and security

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Recital A a (new)

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Aa. whereas colonialism in the Great Lake region by European countries such as Belgium, France, the United Kingdom and Germany relied on ‘divide and rule’ policies; whereas the Belgian Government, for example, created institutionalised divisions between the Hutu and the Tutsi by fabricating racial and ethnic cleavages; whereas these divisions ultimately led to the genocide of the Tutsi in 1994;

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Amendment 2

Marc Botenga

on behalf of The Left Group

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Ab. whereas the region has a tradition of different faiths and beliefs coexisting within the same family;

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Amendment 3

Marc Botenga

on behalf of The Left Group

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Ac. whereas the last three decades of systematic interference in and destabilisation of the region have led to the loss of millions of lives, as well as causing the forcible displacement of 7 million people within the DRC;

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Amendment 4

Marc Botenga

on behalf of The Left Group

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Ad. whereas the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) targets Congolese citizens, including Christians and Muslims, irrespective of their religion;

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Amendment 5

Marc Botenga

on behalf of The Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution

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Ae. whereas European interest in the DRC lies in the richness of its mineral resources; whereas the DRC possesses up to 60 % of the world’s cobalt reserves and 60 % to 80 % of the world’s coltan reserves, and the World Bank has described the DRC as potentially one of the richest economies on the continent and an engine of economic growth in Africa;

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Amendment 6

Marc Botenga

on behalf of The Left Group

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Af. whereas the Commission has repeatedly emphasised the importance of securing access to African critical raw materials in order to support Europe’s green transition, reflecting an EU strategy of ensuring a sustainable and diversified supply of essential minerals, which is crucial for EU multinational corporations ;

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Amendment 7

Marc Botenga

on behalf of The Left Group

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Ag. whereas under the EU’s Global Gateway initiative, Rwanda is set to receive over EUR 900 million in investment, part of which will be allocated to initiatives related to critical raw materials;

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Amendment 8

Marc Botenga

on behalf of The Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution

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Ah. whereas as early as April 2022, non-governmental organisation Global Witness had quoted mining industry sources that estimated that smuggled minerals accounted for up to 90 % of the exports of certain minerals, like tantalum, from Rwanda;

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Amendment 9

Marc Botenga

on behalf of The Left Group

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Ai. whereas since the re-emergence of M23, the UN Group of Experts on the DRC noted, in its letter of 31 May 2024 to the President of the UN Security Council, that Rwanda had recorded an unprecedented rise in coltan exports, namely a 50 % increase from 2022 to 2023;

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Amendment 10

Marc Botenga

on behalf of The Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution

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Aj. whereas Rwanda therefore exported more coltan than the DRC in 2023;

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