21/06/2022 | 15:53:28 Thank you so much, Mr Minister and to your excellent intervention in this Assembly with a poem that I will carefully study and I will learn lessons from it, I am quite sure. As you are in a Parliamentary Assembly, Mr Minister, you know that parliamentarians like to listen, but they also like to react and to answer and ask questions. So we will now have questions from the Assembly. We begin with the speakers on behalf of the political groups and we have a long list of other delegates who... 21/06/2022 | 15:32:30 The sitting is open. Dear colleagues, I would now like to welcome to our hemicycle the President of the Committee of Ministers, Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence of Ireland, his excellency Mr Simon COVENEY. Welcome, Mr Minister, I am very pleased to welcome you today for the third partition of the Parliamentary Assembly. Today we continue our discussions following our initial meeting in Torino at the ministerial conference when Ireland assumed the presidency of the Committee of... 21/06/2022 | 12:23:31 Thank you very much... does this function? Thank you very much, Madam Secretary General, for your inspiring words. We now have listened to you. You now are going to listen, we are now going to listen to the members of the Assembly, because we are in a Parliamentary Assembly and people have made it clear that they want to make their remarks and comments. They are going to do that, and they are going to show that in one minute you can say a lot. The first one who is going to say, who is going... 21/06/2022 | 12:06:31 Before starting, Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA was asking other people in the room. You have seen there are people in the room. They listened very carefully to your first address in this esteemed hemicycle. You said that we want to have more Council of Europe in Belarus and we need more Belarus in the Council of Europe. You made a concrete proposal that you also had your first address here, and you have seen and listened to the applause. I think it has been appreciated very much. Thank you very... 21/06/2022 | 11:55:46 Thank you very much, Mister Minister. I think that I can speak on behalf of the Assembly that we are very happy that we are in your hands for the coming months under your leadership on the Irish Presidency of the Council of Europe. Thank you very much for your introductory remarks. Now, we will have three keynote speakers on the issue. Our first speaker is not a head of state, is not a minister. Normally, this Assembly is addressed by heads of states and ministers. What does not exist now... 21/06/2022 | 11:39:46 Thank you very much, dear Ms Sevinj FATALIYEVA. Now I have to interrupt this debate. We will now start with the High‑Level Panel. Please remain in your seats because we will continue in a minute. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues, Dear Guests to our High‑Level Panel, It is now my honour to open this next event – a High‑Level Panel – an interactive debate with you, colleagues, on "Upholding Democratic Security in Europe". The notion of democratic security is not new. It was first endorsed... 20/06/2022 | 12:11:03 Thank you very much, Mr Aleksander POCIEJ, for your presentation. I have to tell that Mr Aleksander POCIEJ is being assisted by Ms Isild HEURTIN who's sitting behind Mr Aleksander POCIEJ. I have to inform the Assembly that Ms Isild HEURTIN is back on track since the 1 June, after having given birth to a beautiful son who has enriched her family. So, welcome back Ms Isild HEURTIN. Now I open the floor. Yes, it should be especially the men who should applaud because it's not so easy thing to... 20/06/2022 | 12:03:44 Thank you very much Madam Secretary General. Can the agenda now be agreed upon? That is the case. I was just informed that Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO will open the current affairs debate on the blockade. Then we have the minister of the meeting of the Standing Committee in Dublin on the 31 May. They have been distributed. I invite the Assembly to take note of these minutes. No objection. The next item on the Agenda is the debate on the progress report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee. You... 20/06/2022 | 12:02:02 I think we can we accept a 30 seconds delay. So these two debates will take place. We will hear later from our Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly how we are going to organise that. The next item of business is the adoption of the agenda for the third part session of our 2022 Ordinary Session. You'll find it in Document 15522, provisional. The draft agenda submitted for the Parliamentary Assembly's approval was brought up to date by the Bureau of the Assembly this morning. I... 20/06/2022 | 11:59:41 Thank you very much Mr John HOWELL. We now will proceed to vote on the proposal on the proposal of the Bureau to hold this current affairs debate on the United Kingdom agreement on asylum seekers and the critical government reaction regarding the European Court of Human Rights decision. If you support the decision of the Bureau you vote 'YES'. If you oppose the decision of the Bureau you vote 'NO'. The vote is open. The vote is closed. May I ask for the results to be displayed? The...