25/06/2026 | 16:52:11 Thank you, Madam President. Madam Chairwoman, Dear colleagues, Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU touched the bottom – the real masterminders of international or transnational repressions, and it was high time to do that after the European Parliament did it in a fantastic resolution addressing the international repression of human rights defenders. Synchronising our moves with our colleagues in the European Parliament, we add something more. But I would like to turn your attention to concrete cases... 24/06/2026 | 17:40:31 Dear friends, We had Georgia 10 years ago. More like 10 years ago, like a leading country to the Western democratic integration and they were a shining example. Now we are facing, by mostly all of you, remarks that the country is on the way to becoming a dictatorship and on the hook of Russian totalitarian influence. Today I would like to call on Georgian authorities to free all arbitrarily detained persons and end impunity for violations committed by law enforcement agencies, including... 23/06/2026 | 12:48:41 Dear colleagues from Monaco, I would like to say thank you. It was two brilliant meetings in Monaco for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and your leadership is fantastic. My question to you is very simple. It has two parts, A and B. Question A is about how to speed up the process of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, which was created by us after Reykjavík, how to strengthen, speed up and implement it. And second, very simply, by Russian law... 22/04/2026 | 19:15:25 Dear friends, I remember the discussion. The discussion was 12 years ago, Andreas GROSS and other friends and I were supporting the Magnitsky resolution, and that was a fight like in the times of Napoleon. It was our water law fight. And when the Russia delegation put lies on our side, saying "that is not true", and we say "that it's true" and supported a Browder's investigation. MAGNITSKY is a Russian guy, just like Boris NEMTSOV, just like NAVALNY. Actually, NAVALNY was killed and poisoned... 22/04/2026 | 17:06:32 Thank you. Madam Speaker and dear friends, My mother spent four years in a Nazi camp. After she survived the terrible Stutthof concentration camp, and my grandfather Dachau, I never heard her calling for hatred. Hatred and revenge. We built this... It was built at this Council of Europe: the neglect to revenge means capital punishment. That's our core values. That's why today I will vote in favour of this resolution. I would like to thank the rapporteur. Bearing that in mind, we should have a... 29/01/2026 | 10:50:17 Dear colleagues, I would also like to address my words to Mrs Petra BAYR and say that I am very happy that you are now the President because you have dedicated your whole life to human rights. In my view, all the conventions of the Council of Europe also apply to Greenland. Greenland is under our patronage and, above all, what we have achieved in the last 80 years, 75 years I believe, and therefore we must stand by the side of our fellow member, Greenland. I am very glad that the Royal Family... 27/01/2026 | 12:50:14 Thank you. Today we are marking the incredibly dark page, the darkest page in the history of European nations. One of the Yiddish-speaking nations disappeared. Every child was hunted by Nazis and their collaborators in every village. And of course today we are making a broader remembrance. I think the State of Israel was established as an answer, as an echo of the Second World War. And I come from a Holocaust-surviving family. My mother spent four years in the Stutthof Nazi camp and my... 26/01/2026 | 13:42:50 Dear colleagues and friends, I would like to ask you to take your places and concentrate a little bit. Thank you for doing that. I see a lot of familiar faces in the neighbouring corridors. Please. Very nice from your side, to wait. I am sorry that we will have to wait a little bit longer. So I would like to resume the sitting; the election of the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. I would like to announce the results of the election for the President of the... 26/01/2026 | 11:54:22 Now, after this very important moment, saying goodbye to the outgoing President and thanks. Thank you to him. I would like to declare the election of the ingoing President of the Assembly. So, our next item of the agenda, you know very well, is the election of the President of our Assembly. So, in front of me I have received two candidatures. The first candidate nominated in line with the existing rotation agreement between assembly political groups is Ms Petra BAYR, member of the Austrian... 26/01/2026 | 11:27:25 Thank you so much for your extended remark but it was your opinion, and is not the rules of order related to our Agenda. I should apologise, sir, but you were... Any credentials? We are talking about credentials now. Friends? No. We will continue. I'm sorry, I should go back to our points. The other credentials, set in Document 16330, are now ratified. I welcome our new colleagues. Ladies and gentlemen, you are welcome. So, now we are going to the ceremony for the outgoing President of the...