24/01/2023 | 17:48:46 Thank you very much Madam Chair. Let me also express my gratitude to the rapporteur for this very timely and excellent report, actually, because the time has come to think about the future of this organisation. Actually, from my point of view the forthcoming summit could be titled an 'emergency summit', because we can see the deep crisis within this organisation and within Europe. How have we come to this stage of crisis? Let's ask ourselves. Let's be sincere - because of the absence of... 23/01/2023 | 16:05:54 Thank you, Mr President. Actually I was going to speak about the forthcoming Summit of the Member State leaders, but my Armenian colleague pulled me back again to the problem which we have. Unfortunately, the information which Mr Ruben RUBINYAN just gave to our colleagues and friends [is] absolutely out of agenda. Two years ago we brought justice to our territory. We liberated our land from occupation. And I want to remind my respectable colleagues that half of Azerbaijan had been occupied by... 23/01/2023 | 13:19:16 Mr President, let me first of all congratulate you for your reelection to this position. I hope that you will be able to manage this Parliamentary Assembly in a very acceptable way. Today, early in the morning, we saw some problematic issues which are very strange, especially for me as a member of the European Conservatives Group, the president of our group already mentioned that. But I'm against this current affairs debate, of course, because this is not true. I know that I will be in the... 13/10/2022 | 19:40:23 Thank you very much, Mister President. On behalf of the Monitoring Committee, first of all, I want to express my gratitude to these wonderful rapporteurs which the Monitoring Committee have. The report on Romania is the last one from the first round of three periodic reviews selected by the Monitoring Committee and prepared in the new format. I would like to recall that the Committee has been tasked by the Assembly with the preparation of monitoring reports on the member States which are not... 12/10/2022 | 18:02:19 Thank you very much Mr President. On behalf of the Monitoring Committee, I thank the rapporteur for the important and challenging work in the limited time. The preparation of this periodic review report was done under challenging circumstances. Firstly, the work was initiated under difficult sanitary conditions. Then, Hungary successfully chaired the Committee of Ministers last year and was fully committed to this important task. And thirdly, later, parliamentary elections were organised on... 12/10/2022 | 12:23:13 Thank you very much, Mr President. The former President of this Parliamentary Assembly, our dear friend Mr Rik DAEMS, once during a meeting said that we in this Parliamentary Assembly should speak with the country, not about the country. This is an essential thing. That's really very strange and worrying that our dear rapporteurs try to do that. They try to speak with the country. But what I can see, that when they started to speak with the country, not Türkiye has been accused, the... 10/10/2022 | 16:49:52 Thank you, madam president. And I think Mr Ruben RUBINYAN tried to mislead this organisation. I think his job is to present everything upside down. Unfortunately, he is speaking about the hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but he didn't mention that there are still Armenian military forces inside Azerbaijan. He didn't mention that before September hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Armenian military forces infiltrated into the territory of Azerbaijan and put mines inside the... 24/06/2022 | 11:56:13 Thank you, Mister President. Not so easy to speak when our colleagues from Armenia try to create such an unacceptable atmosphere for this Assembly. Actually, today we have discussed a little bit that initiative which was proposed by my fellow friend; to sit together with the Armenians and to discuss all kinds of questions that are so important and in time. And I asked you, I appeal not to our Armenian colleagues, but I appeal to the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of... 23/06/2022 | 11:00:27 Dear Mister Chair, Dear Colleagues, It's really a great pleasure for the Monitoring Committee to present the report on the honouring of membership obligations by Malta. This report has been prepared in the framework of the period review of the Monitoring Committee of the honouring of membership obligations by all Council of Europe member States. The procedure ensures that the Assembly, through its Monitoring Committee, will monitor the honouring of membership obligations by all member States... 22/06/2022 | 11:23:36 Thank you very much. First of all, I want to express my gratitude to the rapporteur for this excellent report. Dear Friends, It's no secret that the attitudes towards the Holocaust and the fight against antisemitism are a clear indication of civilised and democratic societies. Dear Colleagues, In the centre of Strasbourg there is a beautiful synagogue. During twenty years of my membership at the Council of Europe I pass by this beautiful building when I come to this Assembly. But...