NATO Parliamentary Assembly
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
NATO's Parlamentariske Forsamling 2011-12 NPA alm. del Bilag 8 Offentligt STANDING COMMITTEE 264 SC 11 E Original: English NATO Parliamentary Assembly SUMMARY of the meeting of the Standing Committee Sala N Iorga, The Parliament (Chamber of Deputies and Senate) of Romania Bucharest, Romania Sunday, 9 October 2011 International Secretariat November 2011 264 SC 11 E i TABLE OF CONTENTS Item Agenda Item Page - Attendance list ii 1 Opening of the proceedings 1 2 Adoption of the draft Agenda [196 SC 11 E] 1 3 Adoption of the summary of the Standing Committee meeting held in Varna, 1 Bulgaria, on Friday, 27 May 2011 [162 SC 11 E] 4 Procedural matters: 2 Consideration of Proposed Candidates for the Bureau of the Assembly [201 SC 11 E] Organisation of the Plenary Sitting to be held on Monday, 10 October 2011 Draft Amendment to the Rules of Procedure [199 SC 11 B] 5 Assembly Activities in 2011; Draft Calendar and Report Subjects in 2012 2 [219 SC 11 E]: Information document on NATO’s Lisbon Summit Decisions and their Implementation: an Update [225 SC 11 E] 6 The Assembly’s Public Outreach: an Update [223 SC 11 E] 5 7 Finance 5 Draft budget for 2012 [118 FIN 11 E rev. 1] 8 Future sessions and meetings: 6 Distribution of Assembly Sessions and Standing Committee Meetings [063 SC 11 E rev. 2] Sessions and Meetings from 2012 [057 GEN 11 E rev.2] Early Spring Standing Committee meeting, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 30 March-1 April 2012 Spring Session, Tallinn, Estonia, 25-28 May 2012 [207 SESP 11 E] 58th Annual Session, Prague, Czech Republic, 9-12 November 2012 9 Miscellaneous 7 264 SC 11 E ii ATTENDANCE LIST President Karl A. LAMERS (Germany) Vice-Presidents Petras AUSTREVICIUS (Lithuania) Hugh BAYLEY (United Kingdom) Mike ROSS (United States) Treasurer Pierre Claude NOLIN (Canada) Former Vice-Presidents Assen AGOV (Bulgaria) Jane CORDY (Canada) Secretary General David HOBBS MEMBERS AND ALTERNATE MEMBERS Albania Leonard DEMI Belgium Gerald KINDERMANS Bulgaria Kostadin YAZOV Canada Leon BENOIT Jane CORDY Croatia Marija PEJCINOVIC BURIC Czech Republic Not represented Denmark Not represented Estonia Marko MIHKELSON France Loïc BOUVARD Germany Karl A. LAMERS Ulla SCHMIDT Greece Not represented Hungary Not represented Iceland Björgvin G. SIGURDSSON Ragnheidur E. ARNADOTTIR Italy Sergio DE GREGORIO Antonio CABRAS Latvia Imants LIEGIS Lithuania Petras AUSTREVICIUS Luxembourg Nancy ARENDT KEMP Netherlands Han TEN BROEKE Norway Erna SOLBERG Poland Not represented Portugal José LELLO Romania Sever VOINESCU-COTOI Slovakia Juraj DROBA Slovenia Not represented Spain Jesus CUADRADO Ramon ALEU Turkey Ali Riza ALABOYUN Muzaffer BASTOPCU United Kingdom Sir Menzies CAMPBELL Lord JOPLING United States Mike TURNER COMMITTEE CHAIRS Civil Dimension of Security Jo Ann EMERSON (United States) Defence and Security Joseph A. DAY (Canada) Economics and Security Hugh BAYLEY (United Kingdom) Political Raynell ANDREYCHUK (Canada) 264 SC 11 E iii SECRETARIES OF DELEGATION Albania Dritan DELIJA Belgium Frans Van MELKEBEKE Bulgaria Borislav PENCHEV Canada Not represented Croatia Maroje KATALINIC Czech Republic Iva MASARIKOVA Denmark Flemming Kordt HANSEN Estonia Tania ESPE France Frédéric TAILLET (National Assembly) Guillaume RENAUDINEAU (Senate) Germany Claudia RATHJEN (Bundestag) Annemarie BÜRSCH (Bundesrat) Greece Vassiliki IOANNIDOU Hungary Károly TUZES Iceland Arna Gerdur BANG Italy Alessandra LAI Latvia Sandra PAURA Lithuania Snieguole ZIUKAITE Luxembourg Isabelle BARRA Netherlands Arjen WESTERHOFF Norway Henrik MALVIK Poland Not represented Portugal Patricia GRAVE Romania Irina BOJIN (Chamber of Deputies) Slovakia Jarmila NOVAKOVA Slovenia Tamara GRUDEN-PECAN Spain Mercedes ARAUJO Turkey Yesim USLU United Kingdom Jyoti CHANDOLA United States Riley MOORE (House of Representatives) ACCOMPANYING THE DELEGATIONS Belgium Patrick DELODDER Canada Melissa RADFORD France Sylvie BIZZOZZERO Germany Harald BERWANGER Yvonne BOLLOW Andrea BOU-SAID Italy Elena di PANCRAZIO Luxembourg Pia BISENIUS Netherlands Frederieke den HENGST Spain Josefina MENDEZ United Kingdom Kathryn WICKHAM United States Gregory McCARTHY Todd HARMER Jessica TURNER INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIAT Robert ADAMEK Andrius AVIZIUS Henrik BLIDDAL Sébastien BOTELLA Paul COOK Dwight GRISWOLD Christine HEFFINCK Michael HENNESSY 264 SC 11 E iv Susan MILLA Jacqueline PFORR Ruxandra POPA Andrea PRETIS Steffen SACHS Svitlana SVYETOVA Alex TIERSKY Vincent VIVES 264 SC 11 E 1 1. Opening of the proceedings The President, Dr Karl A. Lamers (DE), opened the meeting at 15.10. He thanked the Head of the Romanian delegation, Sever Voinescu-Cotoi, for the delegation's hosting of the Annual Session. Sever Voinescu-Cotoi (RO) thanked the President. The President welcomed Manuel Correia de Jesus and Ali Riza Alaboyun to the meeting in their new capacity as Heads of the Portuguese and Turkish delegations respectively. He also informed the meeting of the apologies for absence he had received from Dobroslav Dimitrov, Head of the Bulgarian delegation, and Norbert Haupert, Head of the Luxembourg delegation. 2. Adoption of the draft Agenda [196 SC 11 E] The draft Agenda was adopted. 3. Adoption of the summary of the Standing Committee meeting held in Varna, Bulgaria, on Friday, 27 May 2011 [162 SC 11 E] The President thanked Kostadin Yazov, Deputy Head of the Bulgarian delegation, for his delegation’s outstanding hosting of the Spring Session, and asked the Committee to approve the minutes of the Standing Committee meeting held in Varna. Referring to point 6 of the summary (Update on the Participation of the Delegation from the Russian Federation in Assembly Activities [124 SC 11 E]), Sir Menzies Campbell (UK) asked whether the President met with the Russian delegation in Varna and, if yes, what the outcome of that meeting was. He also requested confirmation that, as agreed at the Standing Committee meeting in the Azores in April 2011, relations with the Russian delegation would be reviewed at the early spring Standing Committee meeting to be held in Slovenia in April 2012. The Secretary General, David Hobbs, confirmed that the President met with the Heads of the Russian delegation, and that the meeting was constructive. The Heads of the Russian delegation agreed to hosting a Bureau visit to Russia in 2011 and a possible Committee visit in 2012. The President explained that a further meeting with the Heads of the Russian delegation took place in Bucharest to discuss the forthcoming visit of the Assembly’s Bureau to Moscow. Both the President and the Secretary General confirmed that, as agreed in April 2011, relations with the Russian delegation would be reviewed at the next meeting of the Standing Committee meeting in Slovenia in 2012. Raynell Andreychuk (CA) asked to change the word “retorted” with “replied” in point 6 of the summary. The summary of the Standing Committee meeting held in Varna [162 SC 11 E], as amended, was adopted. 264 SC 11 E 2 4. Procedural matters: Consideration of Proposed Candidates for the Bureau of the Assembly [201 SC 11 E] The President explained that he was eligible for re-election and was the only candidate. Of the Vice-Presidents, only Jean-Michel Boucheron (FR) was not eligible for re-election. In addition, Mike Ross (US) had decided to stand down. The other three Vice-Presidents, Petras Austrevicius (LT), Jadwiga Zakrzewska (PL) and Hugh Bayley (UK), as well as the Treasurer, Pierre Claude Nolin (CA), were eligible for re-election and all received nominations for re-election. Nominations had also been received for Julio Miranda Calha (PT) and Jeff Miller (US). According to the Rules of the Assembly, the Vice-Presidents had to be of different nationalities, and one had to come from the Canadian or US delegations. There was only one candidate for each position, and nominations complied with the Rules. All candidates could therefore be elected at the Plenary Sitting by acclamation. The President noted that the Secretary General was also eligible for re-election. David Hobbs, reappointed unanimously as Secretary General, thanked members of the Standing Committee for their confidence in him. Hugh Bayley (UK) informed the Standing Committee that, due an administrative oversight, nominations of US delegates for officer positions in the Economics and Security Committee (ESC) had not been received on time. However, there were two vacancies for the positions of Vice-Chair of the Sub-Committee on East-West Europe Co-operation and Convergence and Vice-Chair of the Sub-Committee on Transatlantic Economic Relations, and Jeff Miller and Gus Biliriakis had expressed an interest in filling these vacancies traditionally reserved for US members. He therefore asked the Standing Committee if their nominations to these positions could be approved. The Committee agreed to the proposed candidatures and changes. Organisation of the Plenary Sitting to be held on Monday, 10 October 2011 The Secretary General outlined the arrangements for the Plenary Sitting. Draft Amendment to the Rules of Procedure [199 SC 11 B] The Secretary General explained that the proposed amendment to the Rules of Procedure would simply delete the reference to the Assembly of the Western European Union following that Assembly’s dissolution. The proposed draft amendment to the Rules of Procedure [199 SC 11 B] was adopted. 5. Assembly Activities in 2011; Draft Calendar and Report Subjects in 2012 [219 SC 11 E] Information document on NATO’s Lisbon Summit Decisions and their Implementation: an Update [225 SC 11 E] The President drew the Standing Committee's attention to the documents presenting proposed Assembly activities and report subjects for 2012, including adjustments resulting from the Co-ordination Meeting and Committee meetings held during the course of the Bucharest Session. The Secretary General raised some of the remaining activities in 2011, including the first Assembly visit to Djibouti, a seminar in London on Afghanistan, and a Bureau visit to Russia. For 2012, he envisaged that the key themes would be Afghanistan, developments in the Middle East and North 264 SC 11 E 3 Africa (MENA) region, and NATO’s post-Lisbon/pre-Chicago agenda.