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
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... 10/04/2019 | 10:54:40 Just three days ago it was reported in the British press that the left-wing Labour MP Jess Phillips had received five death threats, which the police were investigating. A member sitting in this Chamber today has also received death threats. What vile, evil people threaten to kill a British Labour MP? Were they neo-fascists or from the far right or the National Front? No. The threats to kill came from paid-up members of the British Labour party, who thought she was Jewish, which she is not... 09/04/2019 | 10:31:55 I want to talk about Sustainable Development Goals 12, 13 and 15, which I suggest are inextricably linked: responsible consumption and production, climate action and life on land. The life on land goal is to “sustainably manage forests…halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss”. Of all the global environmental challenges, the most critical is biological extinction. For one thing, it is the only irreversible global environmental change. Given time, money and willingness on...
31/03/2021 | Doc. 15253 | Report Urgent need for electoral reform in Belarus
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 01/09/2020 | Doc. 15131 | Motion for a resolution Urgent need for electoral reform in Belarus 11/02/2020 | Doc. 15082 | Motion for a resolution Voluntary relocation for migrants in need of humanitarian protection
21/04/2021 | Doc. 15253, vote on the draft text for resolution Urgent need for electoral reform in Belarus 21/04/2021 | Doc. 15253, vote on the draft text for recommendation Urgent need for electoral reform in Belarus 21/04/2021 | Doc. 15256, vote on the draft text for resolution Human rights violations in Belarus require an international investigation 21/04/2021 | Doc. 15256, vote on the draft text for recommendation Human rights violations in Belarus require an international investigation 29/06/2018 | Doc. 14566, vote on the draft text for recommendation Deliberate destruction and illegal trafficking of cultural heritage