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Mr Oleksandr MEREZHKO (Ukraine, ALDE)

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Substitute
Deputy
Servant of the People

Verkhovna Rada
UA - 01008 - Kyiv
Ukraine

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2025 , 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe since 27/01/2025
  • Member: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance from 14/03/2022 to 21/01/2024
  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group from 30/09/2021 to 13/03/2022
  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 27/01/2020 to 29/09/2021

In the Assembly

  • since 27/01/2025 Substitute - Ukraine
  • from 27/01/2020 to 21/01/2024 Representative - Ukraine

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 27/01/2020 to 21/01/2024)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 27/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (from 27/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 22/03/2021 to 21/01/2024)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 22/03/2021 to 25/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 28/01/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Ms Mariia MEZENTSEVA-FEDORENKO (Full Member): Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 27/01/2020 to 21/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Ms Mariia MEZENTSEVA-FEDORENKO (Full Member): Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (since 27/01/2025)

Interventions

Last speeches

31/01/2025 | 12:08:59 Mister President, I should start by apologising [to] the interpreters, because there was some mix-up, some confusion, because of my fault, I thought that I would be speaking about the issue of discrimination against older persons, but it's even better because I like this format where we can freely raise very important issues. And I will take this opportunity. Mister President, This year is truly important for all of us, for many reasons. Mr Mark TWAIN famously once said that history doesn't... 28/01/2025 | 12:37:34 Thank you, Madam Chair. [It's] so great to be back. The issue of reform of the United Nations is a crucial issue, not only of the international rule-based order, but also a crucial issue of humankind's future and its survival. This issue has a very long history, sometimes disappointing and sometimes hopeless. The major problem here is the lack of political will to reform the United Nations on the part of the permanent members of the UN Security Council. Those members don't want to give up... 13/10/2023 | 10:44:31 Thank you. Dear friends, Remember the question that was asked when the Kremlin dictator had only just started his bloody and genocidal career? The question was: who is Mr Putin? Now, we all know the answer to this question. First of all, Putin is a war criminal and the International Criminal Court has already issued an arrest warrant for him. Second, Putin is a terrorist. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in one of its resolutions, had recognised Russia as a terrorist... 09/10/2023 | 16:46:54 Thank you, dear colleagues. The situation in Kosovo is truly disturbing and reminds me of the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine in 2014. The style of involvement looks familiar, as if someone is acting according to Mr Vladimir Putin's patterns of behaviour. I don't rule out that Russia with assistance of its proxies in the Balkans is trying to provoke a new Balkan war in order to distract attention away from the Russian aggression in Ukraine. How to prevent it from happening? It is... 23/06/2023 | 10:47:15 Yes, I'm here. Dear Friends, The report doesn't take into consideration the biggest threat when it comes to transnational repression. The threat which comes from the Chinese Communist Party. In the text of the draft resolution, China is mentioned only once and without any details. According to the NGO Freedom House, "China conducts the most sophisticated global and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression in the world". This organisation, Freedom House, also mentions that "the CCP...

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