Traduction de «annulation du signal contrapolaire » (Français → Anglais) :

2. Regrets the cancellation of the Heads of State and Government Summit, which was due to take place on 11 July 2014 in Turin, as a follow-up to the summits held in Berlin in July 2013 and Paris in November 2013; stresses the fact that this sends out the wrong signal to young Europeans;

4. Notes the recent calls for the annulment of the State Duma elections, and calls on the Russian authorities to continue to investigate comprehensively and transparently all reports of fraud and intimidation, with a view to punishing those found responsible, and to rerun the voting where irregularities are proven; stresses that Russia's electoral legislation provides for appeal and rectification; points out, however, that the handling of complaints by the Central Election Committee has lacked transparency and has not addressed complaints effectively and in a timely manner; regrets the fact that almost 3000 challenges regarding cases ...[+++]of electoral malfeasance, fraud and violations in individual districts have been rejected by the relevant courts and a few are still pending;

4. Notes the recent calls for the annulment of the State Duma elections, and calls on the Russian authorities to continue to investigate comprehensively and transparently all reports of fraud and intimidation, with a view to punishing those found responsible, and to rerun the voting where irregularities are proven; stresses that Russia’s electoral legislation provides for appeal and rectification; points out, however, that the handling of complaints by the Central Election Committee has lacked transparency and has not addressed complaints effectively and in a timely manner; regrets the fact that almost 3000 challenges regarding cases ...[+++]of electoral malfeasance, fraud and violations in individual districts have been rejected by the relevant courts and a few are still pending;

[English] Hon. Pierre Pettigrew (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I would like to draw the attention of the House to the work of our colleague from Etobicoke Centre who was in Ukraine promoting Canadian values and making sure that we reflect on the result of the next election (1200) [Translation] I appreciate the question of the hon. member for Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie. It gives me an opportunity to confirm that the supreme court of Ukraine just announced the invalidation of the second round of voting and called for a new one in its stead, to be held on December 26.

I would point out that abnormal RALs, which we defined as sleeping obligations for which no payments have been made over the past two years, as well as old obligations which have been on the budget for at least five years, cannot only be reduced by increasing the appropriations for payment, but also by causing obligations to lapse to a large extent.

Secondly, if we were to support this political position we would be encouraging the renationalisation of the common agricultural policy, which would be an absurd thing to do at a time when the post-Nice debate certainly does not provide for the cancellation of Community policies.