Substitute
Member of the House of Lords
Conservative
House of Lords
GB - SW1A 0PW - London
United Kingdom
Working language: English
09/10/2023 - Session Current affairs debate on the situation in the North of Kosovo* following the recent attack and the need for de-escalation 21/04/2021 - Session Belarus is urged to carry out comprehensive reform of its electoral system 31/03/2021 - Political Affairs and Democracy Belarus is urged to carry out comprehensive reform of its electoral system 18/11/2019 - Election observation Belarus: curbs on freedoms and concerns over procedural integrity tarnish elections 13/11/2019 - Election observation PACE to observe the early parliamentary elections in Belarus
09/10/2023 | 17:46:53 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Whilst she report says that the elections were well run I am still worried that it is too easy to distort results when the electorate is so small. The official electorate is 542,000 but there is another 100,000 in the “diaspora” who may largely be Serbian with dubious “dual citizenship.” There are big flaws in Montenegrin election law but it is more incompetence rather than deliberate rigging of the whole system as I saw in Turkey. Apart from... 09/10/2023 | 16:32:41 The immediate trigger for the recent escalation, is that the Kosovo government, led by Prime Minister Albin Kurti, took advantage of a crisis in neighbouring Serbia to try to cement control in the north leading to some serious clashes. These clashes are the latest flare-up in a long-running dispute that was a major driver of conflict in the Balkans in the 1990s. Fighting ended at the close of that decade, with NATO intervention and the separation of Kosovo (with its ethnic Albanian majority... 26/01/2023 | 12:58:11 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) We need a new Nuremberg Tribunal. History is repeating itself in the evils perpetrated by Russia in the Ukraine just as Russia and others were the victims of evil perpetrated by the National Socialists of Germany 75 years ago. So let us repeat that history in the way we try the new perpetrators of evil. The Nuremberg trials did not come about by international consensus. No. Just four countries unilaterally declared that we would hold an... 25/01/2023 | 13:06:50 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) I commend the leader of the UK Delegation for this inspired report which deals with a very serious problem which we all ignore. Of course our top concern must be the loss of life. And we have to recognise the reality, as we are seeing in the Ukraine day after day, that armies, soldiers and leaders can be brutal and evil. As Putin and his genocidal generals, bomb Ukrainian schools, hospitals, and civilian buildings as part of a tactic to so... 15/03/2022 | 15:45:59 Thank you, Mr President. This Council should hang its head in shame, but now it has a chance to redeem itself. We should be ashamed of when Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 the whole western world did nothing. This organisation did nothing. That was the first big green light to Putin to do whatever he liked. So Putin then took over the Crimea and two provinces in Eastern Ukraine and we did nothing. When Russia left Council of Europe, what did we do? We went to them with our begging bowl and...
31/03/2021 | Doc. 15253 | Report Urgent need for electoral reform in Belarus
11/10/2023 | Doc. 15846 | Motion for a resolution Violence and hate speech against politicians: a threat to democracy 04/05/2023 | Doc. 15762 | Written declaration Restoring Taiwan’s Observer status with The World Health Assembly for the effective promotion of global health 25/04/2023 | Doc. 15749 | Motion for a resolution Call for a change on rules relating to gender quota 13/02/2023 | Doc. 15712 | Motion for a resolution Ensuring the right to fair trial in the context of State immunities: how to strike the right balance? 27/06/2022 | Doc. 15582 | Motion for a resolution Attempts to change the International Health Regulations of the World Health Organization might violate human rights
25/01/2023 | Doc. 15674, vote on the draft text for resolution Environmental impact of armed conflicts 25/01/2023 | Doc. 15674, vote on the draft text for recommendation Environmental impact of armed conflicts 15/03/2022 | Doc. 15477, vote on the draft text for opinion Consequences of the Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine 25/01/2022 | Doc. 15425, vote on the draft text for resolution Combating rising hate against LGBTI people in Europe 25/01/2022 | Doc. 15425, vote on the draft text for recommendation Combating rising hate against LGBTI people in Europe