26/01/2023 | 11:07:15 Mister President, Dear Colleagues, Thanks to Mr Damien COTTIER for the excellent report. I also want to thank Ms Oleksandra MATVIICHUK for your emotional speech. Russia has violated international humanitarian law in its assault on sovereign Ukraine for almost a year now. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have died or been wounded in the defence of their home country. Millions have been forced to either leave their homes or live in inhuman conditions with little water, heat, food or shelter, and... 13/10/2022 | 11:58:28 Thank you, Mr President. I would like to thank Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS for a comprehensive report. I also want to thank Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO, Ms Mariia MEZENTSEVA, and other Ukrainian colleagues for your powerful speeches. Our support for Ukraine is solid as a rock. We feel and live by your bravery and look up to your determination. We also want to guarantee that in Ukraine, freedom and democracy prevails. Ukraine must be supported by all means necessary. That means that Ukraine shall receive... 21/06/2022 | 18:57:41 Dear President, Dear Colleagues, I want to thank Ms Thórhildur Sunna ÆVARSDÓTTIR for her excellent report. The report is essentially about democracy in Russia. The report discloses its absence, but only that. It depicts a clear perversion of democracy. Examples in this report are about a society where fear is the predominant state amongst people. The fate of political prisoners portrays the brute reality of today’s Russian society. In today’s Russia, the consequence of carrying out the most... 27/04/2022 | 16:07:43 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, First of all, I want to express my utmost respect to Ukraine in the fight for freedom, not only for yourself but for all of us. I pay homage to every fallen Ukrainian who has resisted Russia's completely unjustified attack on a sovereign country. The Russian Federation has committed systematic and massive war crimes. Russia has carried out murders and forced disappearances, deportations, imprisonments, torture, rape and mass desecration of corpses... 26/01/2022 | 18:51:34 Dear Madam President, Dear Colleagues, I'd like to thank Mr Jacques MAIRE for the great work he has committed to this report. It portrays the events and investigation of poisoning of Mr Alexei Navalny very widely and clearly. The report finds that the poisoning of Mr Alexei Navalny was done by using a toxic nerve agent produced in a Russian state lab. The evidence shows that Mr Alexei Navalny's symptoms did not occur due to low blood sugar levels. What we are talking about here is poisoning a... 30/09/2021 | 16:55:24 Mister President, dear colleagues. I would like to thank all members, in all delegations, for your valuable views and support. And I would also like to present, once more, my gratefulness for all the help and support I got from the Secretariat as rapporteur. And then I would like to conclude the discussion by presenting my three points to the Assembly for overcoming the present challenges at the borders. Those are: 1. Holding Belarus accountable over its reprehensible policy it has chosen to... 30/09/2021 | 15:37:45 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, So this report condemns the hybrid attack by Belarus to Europe and introduces measures to hold Belarus responsible for its actions. Using vulnerable people as instruments is something that cannot be accepted. EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson's statement from 26 August that the situation on the Belarus border is not a migration issue but a part of the aggression of Lukashenko towards Poland, Lithuania and Latvia with the aim to destabilise... 24/06/2021 | 10:43:16 Mister President, do you hear me? Very good, thank you. Mister President, Diasporas have crossed barriers between people for a long time and this excellent report discloses good examples on how they have benefited both old and new residents in local settings. A common and sound European policy adds to this. As we know, diasporas increase possibilities for economic social and cultural development. They can have a positive impact on cultural integration consisting of language proficiency... 30/01/2020 | 16:52:46 Mister President, dear colleagues, Let me start by congratulating both rapporteurs on their important and very timely reports. I will focus this intervention on the report on human trafficking, prostitution, sexual exploitation, forced labor, organ trafficking, forced marriage, illegal adoption, forced begging, and forced criminal activity. These horrible crimes happen in our countries every day. Every single day people are being sold as trade ware, used, thrown away under our watch. This is... 26/06/2019 | 18:47:59 Dear colleagues, It has become increasingly dangerous to be a journalist in today's world, even in Europe. These brave people risk their lives in their quest to put the spotlight on abuses of power and corruption that ruin our democratic societies from the inside. I thank the Rapporteur Mr OMTZIGT, for his very interesting report, shedding light on the investigation of the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. I'm saddened by her tragic fate and the fate of so many other investigative...