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Lord Simon RUSSELL (United Kingdom, EC/DA)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance since 05/10/2019
  • Member: European Conservatives Group from 11/01/2018 to 04/10/2019
  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group from 24/11/2017 to 10/01/2018

In the Assembly

  • since 24/11/2017 Substitute - United Kingdom

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (since 24/11/2017)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (since 20/03/2024)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (from 28/04/2022 to 24/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (since 21/03/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (from 03/07/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Integration (from 08/12/2017 to 28/01/2020)

Interventions

Last speeches

01/10/2024 | 16:53:04 Thank you very much. You will be delighted to hear, ladies and gentlemen, but I don't really have a great deal more to add. I do have some observations. I think, if the efforts over the years of organisations like this, in putting together human rights legislation and standards for refugees and migrants were mirrored by the same degree of effort and co-operation and resources by nation states and groups of nation states into prevention, we would not find ourselves in the situation we are in... 01/10/2024 | 15:45:52 Thank you very much, Mister President. Dear colleagues and Commissioner for Human Rights, it's a privilege to speak before you today about some of the issues around migrant smuggling which are fuelling the angry and often divisive dialogue of the deaf in our national and international political debates, particularly in this year of elections. This report aims to contribute in a calm and reasoned way PACE's input to the current discussions on migrant smuggling across Europe. The smuggling of... 27/06/2024 | 12:01:19 Thank you, President. I'd like to start off by thanking the rapporteur for a very timely report. I first had the pleasure of going to Ukraine as part of the monitoring team from the Council of Europe in 2019. I went there three times. I was there with the pre-election for the first round of the campaign and for the second. And it was a very memorable occasion. I remember in particular the large amount of IDPs that there were and the very smooth way in which they were dealt with in each of the... 20/06/2023 | 16:12:55 Thank you very much. First of all, I'd like to congratulate the rapporteur on doing an excellent job. I would like to salute Ms TSIKHANOUSKAYA for all she's doing. I wonder if Mr Sergei Tikhanovsky realises quite how lucky he is to have you as his wife. This is important to talk about, because Russia is culturally, politically, economically, and militarily strangling Belarus. And the diaspora of Belarusians who are in exile is essential for keeping the spirit of the real Belarus alive. They... 22/06/2022 | 10:35:48 Thank you very much. First of all, I would like to thank Ms Petra BAYR and Ms Ute STEYER in particular for a very interesting discourse. I have three reasons for speaking to you here this morning. First, the principle itself, which I think is self-evident. Antisemitism is clearly wrong. Secondly, personal: on my mother's side, one of my great grandfathers, in the wake of Kristallnacht in 1938, put his name at the head of a petition to raise money to get Kindertransport children out of Germany...

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