The escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Amendments tabled for the plenary sitting on this text, in their own numbering series. This is a different set from the committee amendments tracked elsewhere on AmendEU, and is not counted in any of the site’s amendment totals.

1. Amendment 1PfEJoint motion for a resolution · Paragraph 15
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   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 prope…

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   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 pr…

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2. Amendment 2PfEJoint motion for a resolution · Paragraph 17
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   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;

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   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 membe…

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3. Amendment 3PfEJoint motion for a resolution · Paragraph 20 a (new)
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   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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4. Amendment 4Verts/ALEJoint motion for a resolution · Paragraph 11
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   11. Urges the Commission and the Council to immediately suspend the EU-Rwanda MoU on sustainable raw materials value chains until Rwanda proves that it is ceasing its interference and its exportation of minerals mined from M23-controlled areas; calls on all actors to increase transparency and to effectively ban the entry of all blood minerals into the EU;

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   11. Urges the Commission and the Council to immediately suspend the EU-Rwanda MoU on sustainable raw materials value chains until Rwanda proves it is ceasing its interference and its exportation of minerals mined from M23-controlled areas; calls on all actors to increase transparency and to effectively ban the entry of all blood minerals into the EU; calls for the EU to put in place a trade embargo on all minerals from Rwanda, until it is clear where the minerals come from and until the RDF and the rebel group supported by Rwanda withdraw definitively from the territory of the DRC;

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