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Ms Olena SOTNYK (Ukraine, ALDE)

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Deputy
Samopomich Union

Verkhovna Rada
UA - 01008 - Kyiv
Ukraine

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2019 , 2018

Declarations of interest regarding election observations (if applicable)

Latest news

19/06/2018 - Election observation PACE to observe the early presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Vice-Chairperson: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe from 25/01/2016 to 29/09/2019
  • Member: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe from 20/03/2015 to 24/01/2016
  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group from 26/01/2015 to 19/03/2015

In the Assembly

  • from 26/01/2015 to 29/09/2019 Representative - Ukraine

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

  • Full Member ALDE: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (from 24/01/2019 to 29/09/2019)
  • Full Member ALDE: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (from 22/01/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • First Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 22/01/2018 to 29/09/2019)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights: Bureau of the Assembly (from 09/10/2017 to 21/01/2018)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights: Standing Committee (from 09/10/2017 to 21/01/2018)
  • Ex officio (Rule 44.1 of the Rules of Procedure): Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 09/10/2017 to 21/01/2018)
  • Ex officio (Rule 44.1 of the Rules of Procedure): Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (from 09/10/2017 to 21/01/2018)
  • Chairperson: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 09/10/2017 to 21/01/2018)
  • Full Member ALDE: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (from 27/01/2017 to 08/10/2017)
  • Alternate ALDE: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (from 02/10/2015 to 24/01/2016)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 26/01/2015 to 29/09/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 11/09/2018 to 29/09/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 10/09/2018 to 29/09/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 25/01/2018 to 29/09/2019)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 09/10/2017 to 21/01/2018)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism (from 09/10/2017 to 21/01/2018)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 09/10/2017 to 21/01/2018)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights: Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (from 09/10/2017 to 21/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 28/01/2015 to 24/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 27/01/2015 to 08/10/2017)
  • Alternate of Mr Leonid YEMETS (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 26/01/2015 to 29/09/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO (Full Member): Sub-Committee on relations with the OECD and the EBRD (from 25/01/2018 to 29/09/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Pavlo UNGURYAN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on relations with the OECD and the EBRD (from 28/01/2015 to 24/01/2018)
  • Alternate of Mr Georgii LOGVYNSKYI (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism (from 27/01/2015 to 08/10/2017)

Interventions

Last speeches

26/06/2019 | 16:30:34 I wanted to spend this time to remind you also of some lessons from history. But I don't think that it is a case. I wanted to remind you of the words of Mr Chamberlain in 1938, when he was trying to explain to the citizens why their country allowed Hitler to occupy the Sudetenland. He said that it was going to bring peace to a generation but it didn't bring peace, it brought war. I should better spend my time to one more time remind you of some names –Bekirov, Sentsov, Hryb , Karpyuk, Klykh... 24/06/2019 | 20:01:28 Thank you. It's also a point of order. I have another reason to refine this Resolution and this Report to the Committee and it is very, I think, obvious. Before we vote on the Draft Resolution, just you, as a speaker, mentioned that there is a scope of sanctions that the Assembly would retain in the Resolution, but there is no clear list of sanctions in this Resolution and if we go to the 2014 opinion of the Committee on Rules and Procedures, you have this list of particular sanctions. That's... 24/06/2019 | 17:14:22 Merci, Madame Président. All of this reminds me of the story –I know maybe all of you know this– Oscar Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose. I will just remind you: the nightingale felt pain for the boy who was suffering from unexpected love and decided to help him to find a red rose. There weren't any red roses in the garden, just white roses and she performed a suicidal act while sinking with his heart on the thorn, giving her heart's blood to a white rose which turns into a beautiful red... 24/06/2019 | 16:18:33 Merci, Madam President. Yes, in the draft resolution, there is - in the seventh paragraph - you proposed derogation from Rule 6.1 and 6.3, and such derogation puts forward the exceptional context by referring to a number of cases which took place in the past. Those cases concerned either exceptional political circumstances marked in the return of Turkey and Greece to democracy, or admission in the Assembly of national delegations of new Member States. Russia is not a new Member State and... 10/04/2019 | 17:47:23 I remember when I first entered this Chamber. It was six years ago, and I was not an MP at the time; I did not dream that I would become an MP or a delegate from my country. I sat where Ms Stella KYRIAKIDES is now sitting, and I was a participant in the World Forum for Democracy. It was hugely inspirational to come here and feel the energy of this Organisation. That is why I committed to follow everything that happens in the Assembly, and I am working hard to make it better and to follow its...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

22/01/2019 | Doc. 14809 | Committee Opinion Media freedom as a condition for democratic elections 25/04/2018 | Doc. 14543 | Committee Opinion Follow-up to the report of the Independent Investigation Body on the allegations of corruption within the Parliamentary Assembly 21/04/2015 | Doc. 13760 | Committee Opinion Social services in Europe: legislation and practice of the removal of children from their families in Council of Europe member States

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

15/10/2019 | Doc. 14918 | Written declaration Investigating and preventing corruption at the Council of Europe 03/07/2019 | Doc. 14876 | Written declaration “Magnitsky laws” sanctions must be imposed in response to political prosecution in Kazakhstan 02/07/2019 | Doc. 14941 | Motion for a resolution Adopting new tools in the fight against anti-Semitism in Europe 28/06/2019 | Doc. 14937 | Written declaration Adopting new tools in the fight against anti-Semitism in Europe 26/06/2019 | Doc. 14925 | Motion for a resolution Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Geneva conventions: the contribution of the Council of Europe to the increasing synergy between International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law

Votes on adopted texts

26/06/2019 | Doc. 14922, vote on the draft text for resolution Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of the Russian Federation 24/06/2019 | Doc. 14900, vote on the draft text for resolution Strengthening the decision-making process of the Parliamentary Assembly concerning credentials and voting 10/04/2019 | Doc. 14845, vote on the draft text for resolution The role and responsibilities of political leaders in combating hate speech and intolerance 10/04/2019 | Doc. 14842, vote on the draft text for resolution Stop hate speech and acts of hatred in sport 10/04/2019 | Doc. 14863, vote on the draft text for resolution Role and mission of the Parliamentary Assembly: main challenges for the future