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On 1 October, Members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs will hold and exchange of views with Roland Kobia, the EU Special Envoy for Afghanistan. Two weeks after the launch of the direct Intra-Afghan Negotiations between the Government of Afghanistan and the Taliban movement MEPs will be able to hear from the EU Special Envoy the prospects for a genuine peace process in the country and its impact on the EU-Afghanistan relations.

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The extraordinary joint meeting of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Development, and the Subcommittee on Human Rights, will take place on Monday, 28 September, from 16.45-18.45. This meeting will present the Sakharov Prize 2020 candidates.


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"In the context of the exponential growth of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the President of the European Parliament has announced a number of measures to contain the spread of epidemic and to safeguard Parliament's core activities.

On 2 April, the Conference of Presidents updated the EP's calendar of activities to introduce an extraordinary plenary session on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 April in Brussels, and additional dates for remote meetings for EP governing bodies, committees and political groups.

The current precautionary measures adopted by the European Parliament to contain the spread of COVID-19 do not affect work on legislative priorities. Core activities are reduced, but maintained to ensure that the institution's legislative, budgetary, scrutiny functions are maintained.

The next ordinary AFET Committee meetings will take place on 1, 12, 26 October (via videoconference).

New Calendar 2020
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DRAFT REPORT on the effects of climate change on human rights and the role of environmental defenders on this matter
Committee on Foreign Affairs
María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos

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DRAFT REPORT on Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2019
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Isabel Santos

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On Monday, Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya urged MEPs to continue supporting the creation of a new Belarus “admired by the world”.
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Foreign Affairs Committee MEPs will discuss the dramatic developments in Belarus with opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Monday, 21 September.
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On Thursday, Parliament adopted resolutions taking stock of the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique and the Philippines.
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Subcommittee on Human Rights

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On 21 September, MEPs of the Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a debate with Zhang Ming, Head of the Chinese Mission to the EU. The ongoing negotiations to conclude a long-standing investment deal between the EU and China, disinformation, the situation in Hong Kong, human rights, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic are expected to be some of the issues raised by MEPs in the upcoming discussions with China's EU ambassador Zhang Ming, who will be present at the committee meeting.
The debate will kick off on Monday, 21 September, at 17.00 CET.

The debate comes after the virtual meeting that European Council President Charles Michel, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held with Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this week, on 14 September.
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MEPs call for new presidential elections in Belarus and urge the EU to sanction President Lukashenko and the perpetrators behind Alexei Navalny’s poisoning.
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MEPs condemn Turkey’s actions in the Greek and Cypriot Exclusive Economic Zone and express full solidarity with the two member states.
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