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Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ (Switzerland, SOC)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Treasurer: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group since 27/01/2020
  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 01/08/2017 to 26/01/2020
  • Member: Socialist Group from 25/01/2016 to 31/07/2017

In the Assembly

  • since 24/01/2022 Substitute - Switzerland
  • from 25/01/2016 to 23/01/2022 Representative - Switzerland

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

  • Chairperson: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 29/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons: Bureau of the Assembly (from 29/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons: Standing Committee (from 28/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (from 27/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 21/01/2019 to 26/01/2020)
  • General Rapporteur on ending immigration detention of children: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 25/06/2018 to 25/06/2020)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 24/01/2018 to 28/01/2020)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 22/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (since 25/01/2016)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (from 25/04/2022 to 26/04/2022)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (since 30/03/2022)
  • Member (Co-rapporteur on the Republic of Moldova): Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (since 05/10/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize (since 06/07/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration (since 30/01/2020)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration (from 30/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (from 30/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 29/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 28/01/2020 to 25/06/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Public Health and Sustainable Development (from 24/01/2019 to 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Diasporas (from 24/01/2018 to 28/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 24/01/2018 to 29/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism (from 26/01/2016 to 21/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Charles JUILLARD (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 27/01/2020 to 25/06/2020)
  • Alternate of Ms Sibel ARSLAN (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (since 26/06/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Raphaël COMTE (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 25/01/2016 to 26/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Ms Ada MARRA (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (since 27/04/2022)
  • Alternate of Mr Niklaus-Samuel GUGGER (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (from 24/01/2022 to 24/04/2022)
  • Alternate of Mr Jean-Pierre GRIN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Children (from 24/01/2019 to 27/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Ms Doris FIALA (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 25/01/2017 to 23/01/2018)
  • Alternate of Mr Jean-Pierre GRIN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (since 06/07/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Thomas MÜLLER (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 26/01/2016 to 26/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Thomas MÜLLER (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Co-operation with non-European countries of origin and transit (from 26/01/2016 to 21/01/2018)
  • Alternate of Ms Doris FIALA (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Population (from 26/01/2016 to 25/01/2017)

Interventions

Last speeches

20/06/2023 | 16:18:36 Thank you, Madam President. Ladies and Gentlemen, dear colleagues, Distinguished guests from Belarus, Allow me to begin my remarks with an edifying personal story: in November 2019, I took part in a mission to observe the parliamentary elections in Belarus and, like my colleagues, I was astonished by the quite extraordinary way in which the ballot boxes filled up without any visible demonstration by the voters. Let me explain: voters were able to cast their ballots in advance, I believe four... 27/01/2023 | 10:29:10 Thank you, Madam Vice President. Dear Colleagues, I had a certain feeling of uneasiness when reading this report, a report that is otherwise a solid and well-constructed work. Well done, Damien COTTIER. No, this deeper feeling is in fact the questioning of the finality, the meaning of all this. Let's do a little history. Over the centuries, there has been a general tendency for the art of war to evolve. We can imagine the first combatants, with just a weapon, who faced each other. Then came... 26/01/2023 | 19:06:39 Thank you, Mister President. The Lachin corridor is a strip of territory about 5 km wide that connects 65 km of the Armenian border with the territory called Nagorno-Karabakh or Artsakh by Armenia and Karabakh by Azerbaijan. This is a strategic location that was the subject of special arrangements during the negotiations that followed the fighting in 2020. The tripartite agreement of 9 November 2020 set out in its Article 6 the obligation of Azerbaijan, which had control of this place, to... 26/01/2023 | 18:57:13 Thank you, Mister Vice-President. I would like to thank all the speakers in this debate. I would just like to remind you of a few things and make some answers. Our former colleague from France, Ms Josette DURRIEU, had in fact spoken of the Republic of Moldova as a country between two worlds, a country that she described in her book as struck by great instability, by recurrent political changes and always this difficulty in knowing whether it was going to turn to the West or rather to Russia... 26/01/2023 | 18:14:03 Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Dear colleagues, First of all, I would like to apologize for the absence of Ms. Inese LĪBIŅA-EGNERE from Latvia, co-reporter, who has just been appointed Minister of Justice in her country and therefore had to leave our Assembly. I would like to thank her for the excellent work she has done during the last two years under the mandate given to us. This report reflects developments in Moldova since the last report debated by the Parliamentary Assembly in October...

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