Amendment No. 2 | Doc. 13020 | 02 October 2012
Human rights and foreign policy
In the draft recommendation, replace paragraph 3 with the following paragraphs:
"The Assembly recommends that the Committee of Ministers invite Council of Europe member States to:
-- strive to ensure consistency between the democratic and human rights principles that they have vowed to respect internally and the conduct of their external relations and foreign policy strategies;
-- implement the recommendations contained in Resolution...(2012), where they have not already done so, in particular with regard to specific initiatives of their foreign affairs ministries and their diplomatic services;
Finally, the Assembly stresses that the recent creation of the European External Action Service represents a unique opportunity to improve the relationship between human rights and foreign policy, which should not be missed."