Speaker of the Federation Council.

7. Has already addressed certain shortcomings in connection with conflicts of interest, declarations of interests and transparency; stresses that the former Chairperson of the Management Board of the Authority failed, in 2010, to declare her membership of the board of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), even though the ILSI is financed by undertakings in the food, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors; notes that the members of the Authority’s Management Board are not appointed by the Executive Director and, hence, cannot be dismissed by the Executive Director;

Presidente de la Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia y Diputado de la Asamblea Regional de Murcia’.

It follows an application by the European Commission on behalf of the EU for permanent observer status on the Arctic Council co-signed by Vice President Ashton and Commissioner Damanaki as well as a visit by High Representative / Vice President Ashton to the Arctic (Rovaniemi, Kiruna and Svalbard) in March 2012.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the United Nations Human Rights Council, UNESCO, the National People’s Congress (and its Standing Committee) of the People’s Republic of China and the XUAR Regional Party Standing Committee.

Takes note of Turkey’s increasingly active foreign policy aimed at strengthening its role as regional player; urges the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to take this dimension fully into consideration and engage with Turkey with a view to the coordination of objectives and the proper promotion of EU interests; calls on the Turkish Government to step up its foreign policy coordination with the EU; welcomes, in principle, the recently pronounced ‘zero-problems’ policy in respect of Turkey’s neighbours but points out the need to maintain Turkey’s unambiguous commi ...[+++]tment to our common European values and interests; calls on the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to intensify the existing dialogue with Turkey on foreign policy issues of mutual interest; in light of the inspiration Turkey provides to many in the Arab world, as a secular democracy with a majority Muslim population, strongly encourages the pursuit of concerted efforts in support of democratisation and development in the Middle East and Northern Africa;