Committee on Foreign Affairs Ordinary meeting Joint meeting Committee on Development

Name: Committee on Foreign Affairs Ordinary meeting Joint meeting Committee on Development
Uploaded: 2026-06-03T12:31:45+00:00
Duration: 365 s

00:07 - 00:56

Speaker 2

Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats now. We are under enormous time pressure, especially the AFET colleagues have a long list of votes ahead of us. So, thank you very much for your attention. Robert Biedroń as Vice-Chair of DEVE and I would like to welcome you all to this short joint committee meeting.

Item number one is the adoption of our agenda. If there are no objections, I propose to adopt the agenda as it stands. Mr. Brown, for a point of order.

00:56 - 02:02

Speaker 1

God bless everybody. I would like to propose that the Commission takes under the consideration the fact that a letter was sent to the European Commission last week, maybe two weeks ago, by the two gentlemen, Mikhail and Alexander Kononovich, brothers from Ukraine.

Mr. Brown, to which point of order are you speaking? Can you please refer the paragraph?

I am proposing that you give some interest to the fact that there are concentration camps in Ukraine. And that you might be interested in taking part in some organized inspection of those sent by the European Commission. You have such labor concentration camps in Pyatykhatky, in Vinnytsia, and other places. They are very similar...

02:02 - 04:18

Speaker 2

Mr. Brown, you have one minute for your point of order. The one minute is over. Thank you, and we will now continue with our agenda. Item number one is the adoption of our agenda. If there are no objections, I propose to adopt the agenda as it stands.

That is the case. Item number two, our meeting today is as usual being webstreamed with interpretation available more or less in all the languages of the European Union. Item number three, the records of decisions of the AFET coordinators' meeting of the 5th of May 2026 has in the meantime been uploaded on the AFET intranet. It will be attached to the minutes of our meeting. Item number four, if there are no objections, I propose to adopt the minutes of our AFET meeting on the 16th and 17th of March 2026 without any changes.

Then we can already come to item number five, but before I do that, we have a tradition that if we have international visitors, we give them a warm welcome in our committee. I'm very honored that on the one hand, we can welcome today ten visitors from the Split-Dalmatia County in Croatia. Dobar dan, dobrodošli, gentlemen, a warm welcome to you. And then may I ask you for your attention sitting right at the back of our room under the Time Magazine title. We are very honored to welcome Ms. Tessie Lambourne from Kiribati, a Member of Parliament and the official leader of the opposition, and Mr. Felix Posokuru, member of the Legislative Assembly of Malaita Province of the Solomon Islands and a former minister.

They traveled from the Solomon Islands and Kiribati just to witness our votes. Let's give them a warm round of applause. And the same applies to our friends from Croatia and all other guests who are here. And now, item number five, we start with the vote on the objection to the draft Commission implementing decision on the financing of the annual action plan in favor of the United Republic of Tanzania for 2026. This vote is being held jointly with our colleagues from the Committee on Development.

Robert Biedroń, the vice-chair, is here and I now ask him to take the floor.

04:18 - 04:41

Robert Biedroń

Thank you very much, David. Thank you very much, colleagues. I just want to congratulate our AFET and DEVE coordinators for again moving very fast on this objection procedure. And if adopted today, the motion for a resolution will be submitted for consideration in the next plenary session, which is mid of June. So, congratulations and let's vote.

Back to you, David. Thank you.

04:41 - 06:00

David McAllister

Thank you, Robert. Before proceeding to the formal vote, let us do a test vote in order to check that all voting machines and voting cards are functioning properly. We now proceed with the actual vote. Please vote yes, no, or abstention, whatever you wish. In the moment we have 87 colleagues present, 82 have participated, and the result is...

Is it working? Okay. So, obviously the machine is working, then we can now proceed with the actual vote. Now, the vote is on the European Parliament resolution on the draft Commission implementing decision on the financing of the annual action plan in favor of the United Republic of Tanzania for 2026. I understand that this is only one vote.

It's a roll-call vote and I now open the vote. The vote is closed and this has been adopted 81 in favor, one against, and four abstentions.