Substitute
Member of the House of Lords
Conservative
House of Lords
GB - SW1A 0PW - London
United Kingdom
Working language: English
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
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... 25/01/2022 | 10:39:24 Good morning, Madam president. In my years serving in this honourable Assembly, I can say the report by Mr Fourat BEN CHIKHA is unique. Unique because I have never before seen such a biased, distorted, utterly wrong work of fiction than his comments about the United Kingdom. If it goes unamended, then we'll bring this Assembly into disrepute. The United Kingdom may not have been amongst the first to decriminalise homosexual acts and permit gay marriage, but we were decades ahead of some other... 21/04/2021 | 12:31:19 Mr President, First of all I am grateful to everyone who has spoken in this excellent debate and I particularly welcome the comments, the unanimous comments from members on my report. I wish to thank Ms Ingjerd SCHOU from Norway, Mr Tiny KOX, Lord George FOULKES, Mr Koloman BRENNER from Hungary, Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO, Lord Leslie GRIFFITHS from the United Kingdom and Ms Laima Liucija ANDRIKIENĖ from Lithuania, Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ from Switzerland, Ms Nicole TRISSE from France, Mr John... 21/04/2021 | 11:11:18 Dear colleagues, Elections in Belarus have never met international standards of freedom and fairness. That is a sad fact which we are familiar with in the Assembly, as we have observed several elections in Belarus, the last one being the parliamentary elections in November 2019, when I had the privilege to chair the Assembly’s election observation mission. Therefore, it came as no surprise when last August, in the aftermath of yet another election which was neither free nor fair, the citizens... 27/01/2020 | 12:45:13 May I give congratulations on your splendid election as our President and thank you for the good wishes that wheelchair people may one day get onto the floor of the Plenary. First of all, I want to thank the 18 members of the Assembly representing all political groups of the Assembly and 16 Council of Europe member states which did such an excellent job of observation in Belarus. The delegation was accompanied by legal experts from the Council of Europe Venice Commission, who gave us some...
31/03/2021 | Doc. 15253 | Report Urgent need for electoral reform in Belarus
27/06/2022 | Doc. 15582 | Motion for a resolution Attemps to change the International Health Regulations of the World Health Organization might violate human rights 30/04/2021 | Doc. 15255 | Written declaration Actions against Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) 01/04/2021 | Doc. 15255 | Written declaration Actions against Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) 16/11/2020 | Doc. 15184 | Motion for a resolution Review of the partnership for democracy in respect of the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic 01/09/2020 | Doc. 15130 | Motion for a resolution Call for an inclusive national political process in Belarus
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 25/01/2022 | Doc. 15429, vote on the draft text for resolution Alleged violations of the rights of LGBTI people in the Southern Caucasus 21/04/2021 | Doc. 15253, vote on the draft text for resolution Urgent need for electoral reform in Belarus