26/06/2024 | 11:41:02 I would also give very best words about these three reports which are very important today. I would like to underline the value of this organisation where we sit, due to the fact that we take into the light all the aspects of human rights. For example, the tragedy of war and occupation and demolishing of the cultural identity, the cultural rights, is one of the aspects that is not very much up on the scope. This is why I would like to say some more words about this. Estonia has experienced... 25/01/2024 | 10:58:23 Thank you. Honourable members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Today we stand here together with an urgent appeal deeply rooted in the values of the Council of Europe: the principles of human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Currently we are facing a very grave situation that demands our immediate and unified action. In recent times we have witnessed the harrowing plight of the Ukrainian children falsely deported from their homeland to Russia and Belarus. We... 22/06/2023 | 16:58:51 Thank you. Dear colleagues, Let me begin with a memory from my childhood in Estonia, its capital city Tallinn occupied by Soviet Russia. In 1980, Tallinn was the venue for the sailing regatta of the Olympic Games held then in Moscow. Children remember this event very well because, for a few days, it was possible to buy chewing gum and bananas, which nowadays would be hard to believe, that even these were not available under occupation. In fact, the Olympics were designed wholly as a...