Lasting stability in Tibet and Xinjiang will be achieved only by creating a genuinely shared responsibility for the well-being of these autonomous provinces and not by their forcible assimilation, the draft text says.
The agriculture committee approved the draft text by 33 votes to 4, with 7 abstentions.
The draft text, by Pablo Zalba Bidegain (EPP, ES), responds to the ECB's annual report for 2013, but also assesses the ECB's recent monetary policy measures and how it fulfils its new role as a bank supervisor.
Under the draft text, agreed by the permanent five, the security council: Expresses its strong conviction that those individuals responsible for the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic should be held accountable.
"My view is that the draft text assembled by the hosts unambiguously pushes us all towards a world where we treasure, measure and protect sustainable development in a way we have never done before".
Boxer, who chairs the Senate's environment and public works committee, has said she plans to hold hearings on the draft text, followed by markup of the full legislation.
While not a permanent negotiating bloc, the coalition is acting as a significant counterweight in the Paris talks to the big developing countries, whose negotiators spent most of Thursday night in closed door meetings arguing for a watering down of parts of the draft text prepared by the French presidency and forcing the French to extend the talks into Saturday.
The draft U.N. resolution set to be approved is not under Chapter 7. The draft text, obtained by Reuters, declares the council's readiness to take "further steps" if the resolution is not implemented by parties in Yemen.
A copy of the draft text reviewed by VICE News did not include a list of names, and a senior American official last week did not say how high the new sanctions would go.
Countries echoed the concerns expressed by the G77 and China that the draft text trammels the principles of the Convention and specifically of the Bali Action Plan, which established two working groups (AWG-KP and AWG-LCA) in 2007 in order to implement the Kyoto Protocol and extend it beyond 2012.
