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Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS (Lithuania, EPP/CD)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Vice-Chairperson: Group of the European People's Party since 10/10/2016
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 26/01/2009 to 09/10/2016

In the Assembly

  • since 26/01/2009 Representative - Lithuania
  • from 22/01/2007 to 21/01/2008 Substitute - Lithuania
  • from 23/01/2006 to 22/01/2007 Representative - Lithuania
  • from 24/01/2005 to 23/01/2006 Substitute - Lithuania
  • from 27/01/1997 to 09/11/2000 Representative - Lithuania
  • from 24/01/1994 to 27/01/1997 Substitute - Lithuania

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

  • General Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 20/06/2023)
  • Ex officio (Rule 14.3 of the Rules of Procedure): Bureau of the Assembly (since 18/05/2023)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 23/01/2023)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (since 25/01/2021)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 24/01/2021)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 12/10/2018)
  • Third Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 11/10/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 27/01/2014)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 23/01/2012 to 26/01/2014)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 23/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 24/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Member: (Former) Political Affairs Committee / Committee on General Affairs (from 26/01/2009 to 23/01/2012)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (since 22/03/2021)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (since 22/03/2021)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 25/01/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (since 27/01/2016)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 30/01/2014 to 27/01/2015)
  • 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 External Relations (from 24/01/2013 to 29/01/2014)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 26/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 26/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 03/10/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 26/01/2009 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Mr Arminas LYDEKA (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 23/01/2023)
  • Alternate of Ms Laima Liucija ANDRIKIENĖ (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 25/01/2021 to 25/11/2022)
  • Alternate of Mr Algirdas BUTKEVIČIUS (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 23/01/2017 to 24/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Ms Birutė VĖSAITĖ (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 27/01/2014 to 22/01/2017)
  • Alternate of Ms Dalia KUODYTĖ (Member): (Former) Committee on Culture, Science and Education (from 26/01/2009 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Mr Arminas LYDEKA (Full Member): Sub-Committee on External Relations (since 23/01/2023)
  • Alternate of Ms Laima Liucija ANDRIKIENĖ (Full Member): Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 25/01/2021 to 25/11/2022)
  • Alternate of Mr Algirdas BUTKEVIČIUS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 28/01/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr Algirdas BUTKEVIČIUS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 25/01/2018 to 23/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Egidijus VAREIKIS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 26/01/2017 to 24/01/2018)
  • Alternate of Ms Birutė VĖSAITĖ (Full Member): Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 30/01/2014 to 27/01/2015)

Interventions

Last speeches

13/10/2023 | 10:29:37 Thank you, Madam Chair. Dear friends, we are facing an incredible change in the Russian Federation. We cannot say that we never have trust in democracy. I was among the people in the 1990s making negotiations with Russia, with the Soviet Union, and with Boris Yeltsin. Two entities, the Soviet Union and Gorbachev, a so-called reformer, he was responsible for bloodshed in Tbilisi and Vilnius. Mr Yeltsin was trying to restore first steps, uncertain steps, towards democracy. I remember in Moscow... 12/10/2023 | 17:11:18 Thank you, Madam Chairwoman, Ms Ingjerd SCHOU. remember our first resolution here after 24 February. We were battling here about the first phrase, and now it looks like an anecdote. Our first phrase in the first resolution was "to have all support or to have only humanitarian support" to Ukraine. If you remember the debate? Finally, the debate ended "with the full support". It was the first resolution after 24 February. How big was the way we went from this first debate to the true reality... 11/10/2023 | 16:35:10 Dear Speaker, dear friends, I've just come from my parliament. Just yesterday they voted in favour, seven fractions of Lithuanian Parliament unanimously, of the declaration to support Israeli's right to defend themselves. We are in front of horrors that are echoes to the Second World War. Israeli society is composed of survivors of the Holocaust, and one of survivors is in the Gaza strip now captive. Now, trying to understand how to react to this war declared by a terrorist organisation, I... 22/06/2023 | 17:13:24 "Dear Friends," [said in French] Dear Friends and colleagues, I have been here since 1993 just when it was celebrated. Thank you for the participation, 30 years of Lithuanian membership in the Council of Europe, Estonian membership of the Council of Europe and Slovenian membership of the Council of Europe. I remember the entry of Russia in 1996. Among their obligations was to withdraw Russia's 14th Guards Army from Moldova, to pay compensation for the Baltic peoples deported to Siberia and... 22/06/2023 | 16:08:11 "Thank you very much, Mister President. Dear friends," [said in French] I would like to say that today we are facing 500 days that we have been witnessing Russia's illegal and unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine. Five-hundred days that Ukrainians have been defending the values of Europe, not only on the frontline, Mister President, but by voting inside of their parliament. The Istanbul Convention passed through. The other extremely important conventions and bills are approved by the...

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