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Mr Tiny KOX

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Representative
Senator
Socialist Party (SP)

Senate - Eerste Kamer der Staten Generaal
NL - 2500 EA - The Hague
Netherlands

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018

Latest news

20/04/2021 - Session The Assembly sets out its vision of the Council of Europe's strategic priorities 30/03/2021 - Political Affairs and Democracy A contemporary vision of human rights for a forward-looking Council of Europe 25/01/2021 - Session PACE reviews the work of its subsidiary bodies over a whole year 01/11/2020 - Election observation Georgian elections: statement of the international observers 30/04/2020 - Bureau COVID-19: PACE Summer session postponed to a later date

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Chairperson: Group of the Unified European Left since 22/01/2007

In the Assembly

  • since 22/01/2007 Representative - Netherlands
  • from 25/09/2003 to 22/01/2007 Substitute - Netherlands

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

  • General Rapporteur on the budget and intergovernmental programme: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (since 04/03/2020)
  • Alternate UEL: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (since 13/10/2017)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 25/04/2017 to 08/10/2017)
  • Third Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 24/01/2017 to 23/01/2018)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.5 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 04/03/2016)
  • Alternate UEL: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (from 30/01/2015 to 28/01/2016)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.5 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 21/01/2013)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.5 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (since 21/01/2013)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.5 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 21/01/2013)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 23/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 23/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Member: (Former) Committee on Culture, Science and Education (from 24/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Member: (Former) Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men (from 24/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 24/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Member: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 22/01/2007 to 23/01/2012)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Bureau of the Assembly (since 22/01/2007)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Standing Committee (since 22/01/2007)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: (Former) Political Affairs Committee / Committee on General Affairs (from 22/01/2007 to 23/01/2012)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Presidential Committee (since 20/01/2007)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (since 28/01/2020)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Sub-Committee on Conflicts between Council of Europe Member States (since 23/01/2017)
  • Member: Sub-Committee on Ethics (since 28/01/2016)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 30/01/2014 to 24/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 24/01/2013 to 26/01/2014)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on relations with the OECD and the EBRD (from 24/01/2013 to 24/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 14/03/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Member: Sub-Committee on Sustainable Development (from 22/01/2007 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Ms Anouchka van MILTENBURG (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 10/10/2016 to 24/04/2017)
  • Alternate of Mr Anne MULDER (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 18/04/2016 to 09/10/2016)
  • Alternate of Mr Malik AZMANI (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 27/11/2015 to 17/04/2016)
  • Alternate of Ms Reinette KLEVER (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 23/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Alternate of (Member): (Former) Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs (from 24/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Ms Ankie BROEKERS-KNOL (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Culture, Diversity and Heritage (from 23/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Alternate of Mr Hans FRANKEN (Vice-Chairperson): Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 14/04/2011 to 23/01/2012)

Interventions

Last speeches

22/04/2021 | 10:19:54 Thank you, Mr President. Yesterday President Putin made his State of the Union, which was watched by millions of Russians and the President addressed many important issues, like the pandemic, the international tensions and the social and economic situation in Russia. There's one issue he did not mention in the State of the Union and that was the issue that was mentioned by thousands only a few hours later in the streets of Moscow and St Petersburg and Irkutsk and in Novossibirsk. That was the... 21/04/2021 | 11:33:30 Thank you Mr President. After the presidential elections on the 9 August last year, massive protests broke out in the in the streets of Belarus and we noticed a very harsh reaction of the authorities to this peaceful protest. The Parliamentary Assembly by its Standing Committee could already react very soon on what was happening there Belarus which is the only State and territory of Europe which is not a member State of our Assembly, but nevertheless, is in the midst of Europe. And in that... 20/04/2021 | 12:50:55 Thank you very much, Mr President. And thanks a lot to all colleagues who participated in this important debate and they emphasised all kinds of elements that we should take into account. Some colleague said this is too idealistic and that's something that is a realist conclusion, but may I remind everybody that when in '49 in Strasbourg the Council of Europe met for the first time reality was far worse than reality today: the continent was in ruins and the ideals then that Europe should work... 20/04/2021 | 11:04:11 Mr President, Next month the Committee of Ministers will consider the strategic framework for the Council of Europe. The Bureau of the Assembly decided to agree with your proposal, Mr President, that the Assembly should make its own contribution to this most important process. The Committee for Political Affairs and Democracy was asked to prepare, in time, a report on the Assembly's vision on the strategic priorities for the Council of Europe. The Committee granted me the honour of preparing... 28/01/2021 | 09:18:33 Thank you, Mister President. I think we should not call this Assembly a "puppet dog". It is a meeting of the national parliaments of 47 Member States. I think we should pay respect to the essence of the Assembly. Mister President, our rules allow members to challenge credentials of a national delegation at the beginning of each year, but having this right does not say that you always have to use it. Challenging credentials should serve a concrete goal. The right ought not be used time and...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

31/03/2021 | Doc. 15252 | Report The Assembly's vision on the strategic priorities for the Council of Europe 28/01/2020 | Doc. 15050 | Report Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of the Russian Federation 09/04/2019 | Doc. 14863 | Report Role and mission of the Parliamentary Assembly: main challenges for the future 08/01/2018 | Doc. 14465 | Report The honouring of obligations and commitments by Bosnia and Herzegovina 27/09/2017 | Doc. 14406 | Report Defending the acquis of the Council of Europe: preserving 65 years of successful intergovernmental co-operation

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

23/03/2021 | Doc. 15244 | Written declaration Critical state of health of prisoners in Turkey during the Covid-19 pandemic 04/12/2020 | Doc. 15190 | Written declaration Members of the Parliamentary Assembly ask Iran not to carry out the death penalty of Ahmadreza Djalali 16/11/2020 | Doc. 15184 | Motion for a resolution Review of the partnership for democracy in respect of the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic 07/10/2020 | Doc. 15162 | Motion for a resolution The impact of Brexit on human rights on the island of Ireland 01/10/2020 | Doc. 15155 | Motion for a resolution Poisoning of Alexei Navalny

Votes on adopted texts

22/04/2021 | Doc. 15270, vote on the draft text for resolution The arrest and detention of Alexei Navalny in January 2021 22/04/2021 | Doc. 15270, vote on the draft text for recommendation The arrest and detention of Alexei Navalny in January 2021 22/04/2021 | Doc. 15272, vote on the draft text for resolution The functioning of democratic institutions in Turkey 21/04/2021 | Doc. 15253, vote on the draft text for resolution Urgent need for electoral reform in Belarus 21/04/2021 | Doc. 15253, vote on the draft text for recommendation Urgent need for electoral reform in Belarus