Agence Europe, 3 October 1998, page 14

(EU) EP/OCTOBER SESSION: COMMISSION STATEMENT ON OWN RESOURCES, COUNCIL DECLARATION ON THE EUROPEAN CONFERENCE AND MALTA, DEBATE ON MIGRATION FLOW INTO EU AND KOSOVO

Brussels, 02/10/1998 (Agence Europe) - The agenda of next week's European Parliament plenary session has changed due to current events. The session on Wednesday 7 October will open with a Council declaration on the European Conference slated to meet on 6 October in Luxembourg (see elsewhere in this issue) and, in this context, on Malta (further to the newly elected government move to reactivate this country's application for EU admission). The Council and Commission will make statements on the situation in Kosovo. During this debate, the Liberal group, which has already requested a military intervention, will call for Slobodan Milosevic to be indicted for genocide before the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague (Olivier Dupuis of the Radical Alliance has stated that such an indictment would be a "much more effective missile for Milosevic than the Tomahawk"). Members will then raise questions on "the migrants entering EU territory via the Mediterranean". The spokesman for the Greens expressed the grou

p's discontent over the way the Conference of Presidents has dealt with this issue. The Greens would have preferred to raise the problem of Member State asylum policy. The EP will be voting on resolutions on these three resolutions on Thursday.