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Ms Liisa-Ly PAKOSTA (Estonia, NR)

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Representative
Member of the Riigikogu
Estonia 200

Riigikogu
EE - 15165 - Tallinn
Estonia

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2024

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group since 19/06/2023
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 07/03/2014 to 21/06/2015

In the Assembly

  • since 19/06/2023 Representative - Estonia
  • from 23/06/2014 to 21/06/2015 Substitute - Estonia
  • from 07/03/2014 to 23/06/2014 Representative - Estonia

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 19/06/2023)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (since 19/06/2023)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 29/09/2014 to 21/06/2015)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (from 07/03/2014 to 22/06/2014)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 07/03/2014 to 22/06/2014)
  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 07/03/2014 to 21/06/2015)
  • Alternate of Mr Margus HANSON (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 07/03/2014 to 21/06/2015)

Interventions

Last speeches

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...

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