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Mr Damien COTTIER

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In the political groups

  • Member: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe since 27/01/2020

In the Assembly

  • since 24/01/2022 Representative - Switzerland
  • from 27/01/2020 to 24/01/2022 Substitute - Switzerland

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

  • Chairperson: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 25/01/2022)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights: Bureau of the Assembly (since 25/01/2022)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights: Standing Committee (since 25/01/2022)
  • Ex officio (Rule 44.1 of the Rules of Procedure): Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 25/01/2022)
  • Ex officio (Rule 44.1 of the Rules of Procedure): Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (since 25/01/2022)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (since 24/01/2022)
  • First Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 28/09/2021 to 23/01/2022)
  • Member: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (since 25/01/2021)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 26/06/2020)
  • Full Member: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 27/01/2020 to 24/04/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (since 27/04/2022)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (since 26/01/2022)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (since 24/01/2022)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (since 24/01/2022)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights: Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (since 24/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (since 22/03/2021)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 12/03/2021 to 27/09/2021)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 30/01/2020 to 24/04/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 28/01/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr Hannes GERMANN (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 27/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ (Full Member): Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (since 25/04/2022)
  • Alternate of Mr Hannes GERMANN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (since 22/03/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr Hannes GERMANN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 11/09/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration (since 26/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr Charles JUILLARD (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 28/01/2020 to 10/09/2020)

Interventions

Last speeches

27/01/2023 | 10:46:39 Thank you, Madam Chair. First of all, I would like to thank all those from the political groups who support this report and who have made compliments. Mr FRIDEZ, you said "thank you, Damien COTTIER", but you should say "thank you, Fabien GOUTTEFARDE", and you should say "thank you, Günter SCHIRMER" to thank the secretariat support. This is really where the work has been done. I believe that Mr Vladimir VARDANYAN is right when he says that we will not be able to stop this technology and that... 27/01/2023 | 10:05:33 Thank you, Madam Chairperson. Dear colleagues, This report was, I must say, essentially the work of our former colleague from the Assembly, Mr Fabien GOUTTEFARDE from France, who was rapporteur until last summer on this subject. He made an important contribution to this work and I was content, in fact, with the indispensable support as always of the Secretariat, to finalise what Mr Fabien GOUTTEFARDE had prepared. What are we talking about today? A category of new weapons that has been under... 26/01/2023 | 17:41:55 Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to the Chairman of the Committee for the overview he has given. I am speaking on Montenegro. I am co-rapporteur with Mr Nicos TORNARITIS from Cyprus, who is not here, and I must say that we are somewhat concerned - and the President mentioned this - because the current situation in Montenegro is one of institutional deadlock, insofar as there is no longer a majority for the Government, the President of the Republic is refusing to appoint a new Prime Minister... 26/01/2023 | 11:43:33 Thank you, Mr President. I am delighted that the debate is ending with this strong statement by the Chairman of the French delegation, which echoes statements by many countries and institutions: two days ago here the German Foreign Minister, a few days ago the Dutch Government, not so long ago the President of the European Commission and many countries and governments who are pleading for the creation of this international tribunal for the crime of aggression, which our Assembly had already... 26/01/2023 | 10:13:44 Thank you, Mister President. Mariya was 15 years old. She was the president of her school's student council. She was interested in music. She liked to grow flowers. It is said that her dance performances enchanted with their beauty and grace. Mariya died on 14 January in Dnipro, along with many other civilians, snatched from life, snatched from her family by a missile that ripped through her building. We have all seen these unbearable images. Mariya should not have died. She should have been...

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