Representative
Senator
Socialist Party (SP)
Senate - Eerste Kamer der Staten Generaal
NL - 2500 EA - The Hague
Netherlands
Working language: English
25/01/2021 - Monitoring 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 27/04/2020 - Standing Committee COVID-19: Standing Committee meets by videoconference to assess national responses to the pandemic 06/03/2020 - Standing Committee Situation in the Turkey-Greece border: the international community must come together to find solutions, says Tiny Kox
25/01/2021 | 17:21:16 Thank you very much, Mr President. First, my compliments to Mr Michael Aastrup JENSEN for the fact that he wrote this report on behalf of the Monitoring Committee and that he got re-elected. Once again, he did a great job last year, in the last difficult year, and I'm confident he will do a great job this year. The Monitoring Committee has adopted this report with large support. I compliment the rapporteur for this report as it is an appropriate summary of the report made by our co... 25/01/2021 | 12:33:01 Mr President, the parliamentary elections on 31 October in Georgia took place in times of Covid. This did not only limit the possibilities of the citizens and the authorities in Georgia, but also our election observation mission. We had to skip a pre-electoral visit to Georgia, could only deploy part of our delegation during the election observation and at first we had to postpone, and later to cancel, a post-electoral permission to the country. Nevertheless, Mr President, thanks to the... 20/11/2020 | 14:57:48 Thank you very much and great to see you at least, Mister President, there are in the hemicycle. We all envy you and want to be with you as soon as possible. Let me first compliment ourselves for all the good work done in the past months of this year under your presidency, Mister President, and with tremendous support and hard and creative work of our Secretary General and the whole of this team. My compliments also includes our committees and especially our Committee Chairs and our excellent... 20/11/2020 | 12:18:09 Thank you very much, Mr President. And to follow up all that was said by my colleague Mr Georgios KATROUGKALOS, indeed, I think we all should be very happy that, in times of crisis, our ministers were able to come up with this Athens Declaration, and I think that is of main importance that today our Standing Committee will welcome that statement as well, and to confirm that we agree with the main issues that were mentioned there. I am especially happy that there is a full commitment to both... 31/01/2020 | 12:19:31 Thank you, Mr President. I would like to start to compliment both rapporteurs Mr Stefan SCHENNACH and Ms Reina de BRUIJN-WEZEMAN on their reports on organ transplant tourism and combating trafficking in human tissues and cells. I indeed hope that the Assembly will be able to recommend today to the member states to sign, ratify, and implement relevant global and Council of Europe conventions and to support proposals made in the report to develop binding legal instruments to tackle these...
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 26/01/2016 | Doc. 13958 | Report Combating international terrorism while protecting Council of Europe standards and values
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 01/09/2020 | Doc. 15130 | Motion for a resolution Call for an inclusive national political process in Belarus
31/01/2020 | Doc. 15028, vote on the draft text for resolution Democracy hacked? How to respond? 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15029, vote on the draft text for resolution Organ transplant tourism 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15022, vote on the draft text for recommendation Combating trafficking in human tissues and cells 30/01/2020 | Doc. 15020, vote on the draft text for resolution Reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan 30/01/2020 | Doc. 15020, vote on the draft text for recommendation Reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan