22/01/2024 | 16:35:08 Thank you very much, Mister President. Thank you very much for the well meant compliments. I vote from a new direction, as there is a new President, and so many nice words with regards to the outgoing President. I think we we have shown that presidents come and go, the presidency stays. I welcome it very much that we tried to stick to the procedures that we have developed before my predecessor in the past two years and in the coming times. We need a very solid presidency as we need our... 22/01/2024 | 12:52:25 Dear colleagues, We did do our best. Nevertheless, we have to admit that together we have failed to stop, for almost 24 months now, a horrible war of aggression on European soil. May I only refer to the horrors towards millions and millions of Ukrainian citizens who have been killed, harmed and abducted. This week we will again in the plenary try [to see] how to help these innocent children. I'm honoured that Ms Olena Zelenska will take part in this very important debate on the children of... 22/01/2024 | 12:50:55 Dear Colleagues, I think you'll agree: over the past two years, we've all been confronted with one of the most difficult and dangerous periods that the Council of Europe and our citizens have experienced since the end of the World War and the Cold War. The outbreak of another world war was no longer considered purely hypothetical. From the first to the last day of my presidency, our main objective has been to help prevent, and then stop, this new and horrific war of aggression on European... 22/01/2024 | 12:48:14 Thank you very much. May I first congratulate my dear colleague Mr Theodoros ROUSOPOULOS as our new president. I wish him wisdom and strength. I put full trust in him, in you, dear Theodoros, presiding over a Europe so relevant and vibrant, Agora, as he said, to search for credible answers to often incredible challenges. May I then pay tribute to former distinguished members of the Assembly who sadly passed away recently. Amongst them are my dear friends Mr Dick MARTY and Sir Tony LLOYD... 13/10/2023 | 13:02:52 Thank you very much, dear Vice-President Mister Yıldırım Tuğrul TÜRKEŞ, for presiding. Our next business is to consider the changes proposed in the membership of committees. These are set out in Document Commissions (2023) 07 and Addendum 3. Are the proposed changes in the membership of the Assembly’s committees agreed to? I do not see any objections. The next item on today’s agenda is the continuation of the debate on the Progress Report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee (Doc. 15834... 12/10/2023 | 20:08:54 Thank you very much, Sir Christopher CHOPE. But officially, there is no opinion of the Committee. I shall now put the Amendment to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the results to be displayed. The oral Amendment is adopted. I shall now proceed with the vote on the draft resolution contained in Document 15841 as amended. A simple majority is required. The vote is open. Is the member of the Assembly entitled to vote? The vote is closed. I call for the results to be... 12/10/2023 | 20:05:07 Thank you very much, Mister Vice-Chairperson, dear Sir Christopher CHOPE. The debate is now closed. The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights has presented a draft resolution and a draft recommendation. We will start with consideration of the draft resolution and then move onto consideration of the draft recommendation. I have received an oral Amendment from Mr Pieter OMTZIGT, which rewrites paragraph 14.3 as follows: "apply, should Türkiye fail to release Osman Kavala, Magnitsky... 12/10/2023 | 19:18:41 I shall now put the Amendment to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I ask for the results to be displayed. The Amendment is adopted. I understand that Mr Ruben RUBINYAN wishes to withdraw Amendment 3. Does anybody else wish to move it? I do not see any. So Amendment 3 is withdrawn. We now will proceed the vote on the draft Recommendation contained in Document 15840 as amended. A two-thirds majority is required to vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I ask for the results... 12/10/2023 | 19:11:24 I now shall put the Amendment to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the results to be displayed. The Amendment is carried. We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Document 15840 as amended. A simple majority is required to vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. Can we see the results displayed? The draft resolution is adopted. We will now consider the draft recommendation, which you will find in Document 15840 to which 9 Amendments have... 12/10/2023 | 18:58:56 Thank you very much. I know shall put the oral sub-Amendment 1 to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. Can the results be displayed? The oral sub-Amendment 1 carried. I have also been informed that Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ wishes to propose an oral sub-Amendment 2 to Amendment 24. In Amendment 24, replace the words "the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees" with the following words: "United Nations Agencies". In my opinion, the oral sub-Amendment 2 is in order under our...