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Mr Serhii SOBOLIEV (Ukraine, EPP/CD)

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Representative
Deputy
Batkivshchyna All-Ukrainian Union

Verkhovna Rada
UA - 01008 - Kyiv
Ukraine

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2026 , 2025 , 2024 , 2023 , 2022

Declarations of interest regarding election observations (if applicable)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Group of the European People's Party since 27/01/2020
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 11/10/2018 to 29/09/2019
  • Vice-Chairperson: Group of the European People's Party from 26/01/2015 to 10/10/2018
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 25/01/2010 to 25/01/2015

In the Assembly

  • since 27/01/2020 Representative - Ukraine
  • from 25/01/2010 to 29/09/2019 Representative - Ukraine
  • from 21/01/2008 to 25/01/2010 Substitute - Ukraine

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 27/01/2020)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: (Former) Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 25/01/2016 to 17/04/2016)
  • Member: (Former) Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 25/01/2012 to 25/01/2015)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 25/01/2012 to 29/09/2019)
  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 23/01/2012 to 25/01/2015)
  • Member: (Former) Committee on Economic Affairs and Development (from 25/01/2010 to 23/01/2012)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 07/04/2025 to 27/01/2026)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (since 07/04/2025)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 24/06/2024 to 28/01/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 25/01/2024 to 28/01/2025)
  • Member of the Monitoring Committee of the member States that are party to the conflicts under the terms of reference of the sub-committee: Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (from 19/02/2020 to 26/01/2024)
  • Member of the Monitoring Committee of the member States that are party to the conflicts under the terms of reference of the sub-committee: Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (from 02/03/2017 to 29/09/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Environment and Energy (from 15/03/2013 to 27/01/2015)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 17/02/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 25/01/2010 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Mr Sergiy VLASENKO (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 26/01/2015 to 29/09/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Ivan POPESCU (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 23/01/2012 to 25/01/2015)
  • Alternate of Mr Yevhen MARMAZOV (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 23/01/2012 to 21/01/2013)
  • Alternate of Ms Olena BONDARENKO (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 23/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Alternate of Mr Petro SYMONENKO (Member): (Former) Political Affairs Committee / Committee on General Affairs (from 22/01/2007 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Ms Olena BONDARENKO (Member): (Former) Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men (from 23/01/2006 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Ms Yelyzaveta YASKO (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 27/01/2022 to 24/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Mykola SHERSHUN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Environment and Energy (from 23/03/2012 to 20/01/2013)

Interventions

Last speeches

23/04/2026 | 11:04:36 Thank you Mister President, Dear colleagues, 10 months have already passed. We have a decision from 21 countries, first of all from our organisation, and our friends from all over the world who have made the decision to start the work of Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. Of course, it's very important that all other countries, first of all from our organisation, and of our friends all over the world to make the same decision. Why is it so important to start this... 22/04/2026 | 19:25:53 Madam President, Dear colleagues, I want to thank my colleague from the Ukrainian delegation for a very honest and brave report. We can analyse this from other and different parts. But it's not a report only about the Magnitsky case. It's not a report only of 17 years of events that have taken place. It's not a report about an exact country. It's a report about a system that the Russian oligarchs' previous regime and Mr Vladimir PUTIN's regime built for many, many years. If it's possible to... 27/01/2026 | 18:12:55 I want to start my speech with a big thanks to all your nations, for all Europe, for the United States and all other countries that saw the threat of Russian aggression, of a new Russian fascism that is growing all over the world. When somebody tried to ask the question and make parallels between the start of the second World War and this period of Russian aggression, I want to answer this question by saying it's not a parallel, because only now, in comparison with the Second World War, all... 27/01/2026 | 16:33:35 Thank you Madam President. I want to thank the rapporteur. I think it's one of the most practical reports, not only because of this report, but because of the recommendations that we can use as the start of a big process, because it's a recommendation of the whole process of organisation of elections. It's very important to understand the specific problems that we have not only in Ukraine, but a lot of countries after the post-war period. We all remember the pandemic elections, but we can't... 02/10/2025 | 10:38:29 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, When in 2008, the Georgian delegation here announced that next would be Ukrainian Crimea, nobody believed this. But only six years passed and Russians occupied Crimea, a part of Donbas and Luhansk. Only six years passed after the so-called Minsk agreements and Russia started a new full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the words of Vladimir PUTIN only a week before this, "We will never, never send our troops to Ukraine." Now drones attack other...

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