Motion to Authorize Committee to Meet During Sitting of the Senate—Motion to Authorize Committee to Meet During Adjournment of the Senate—Orders Withdrawn

Committee Authorized to Meet During Adjournment of the Senate—Order Withdrawn

H. whereas, in accordance with Article 145 of the new Financial Regulation and Article 94 of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002, Parliament shall consider a report concerning discharge for a given financial year to be given to those bodies by 30 April of the year n+2; furthermore, should its competent committee propose postponing the discharge decision, Article 94 provides for the Parliament to give the reasons for postponement;

B. whereas these irregularities, confirmed by various Peruvian and international independent bodies, and the refusal of the authorities to postpone the date of the second ballot in order to solve problems in the counting system and provide minimum guarantees for the elections - as requested both by the OAS mission and the international observers and by the Peruvian Ombudsman, the Peruvian electoral observers’ institutions and the democratic opposition parties – have led to one of the candidates not taking part in the second round of the elections and the withdrawal of the OAS electoral observers’ mission and all the electoral observers ...[+++]and spokespeople,

1. Informs the Commission that it postpones discharge and asks the Commission to take the following steps by 15 May 2000:

In the present circumstances, the European Council thinks it necessary to adopt the following measures : - raising of the issue of human rights in China in the appropriate international fora; asking for the admittance of independent observers to attend the trials and to visit the prisons, - interruption by the Member States of the Community of military cooperation and an embargo on trade in arms with China, - suspension of bilateral ministerial and high level contacts, - postponement by the Community and its Member States of new coop ...[+++]eration projects, - reduction of programmes of cultural, scientific and technical cooperation to only those activities that might maintain a meaning in the present circumstances, - prolongation by the Member States of visas to the Chinese students who wish it, Taking into account the climate of uncertainty created in the economic field by the present policy of the Chinese authorities, the European Council advocates the postponement of the examination of new requests for credit insurance and the postponement of the examination of new credits of the World Bank.