29/01/2020 | 17:16:01 Thank you, Chairman. And I would also like to thank Mr SCHWABE for the incredible work he has done so well in recent years. Mr Tiny KOX's work was a first step towards improvement to have what we are discussing today. I think I have been in the Council of Europe in this room almost more than 20 years. I remember, ladies and gentlemen, Mr SCHWABE, when we began a dialogue with the European Union and with the European Parliament, and we would like to be heard in Brussels and for our reports to... 27/06/2019 | 17:50:51 So, I'm moving to Russian now. I'd like to say that I am astounded by the statement that has been made by the Russian Federation delegation. I think that the rapporteur, who has another 12 months left to complete his report, will finally be allowed to visit the Russian Federation, and it will be possible for me to discuss this issue with your Legal Affairs Committee. You were in fact able to join the Legal Affairs Committee that met this morning, so I hope that it will be possible, in an... 27/06/2019 | 17:34:50 Only very quickly, to Mr Tiny KOX about the cooperation of our committee. We tried to do that and Ms Thorhildur Sunna ÆVARSDÓTTIR, chairwoman of our committee and behind this whole team, who tried permanently to ask Russia for cooperation in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov. We got no results and if Mr Tiny KOX is now saying, dear colleagues, that now we will have access, we will be very happy. We we will look into our regulations. Our rapporteurs still have 12 months ahead to be a... 27/06/2019 | 17:12:08 I simply wanted to point out that over the last couple of days, we have certain indications that there were certain loopholes in the entire issue in the particular investigation concerning NEMTSOV. So of course, we have to look at this particular situation understanding that it was a very, very cruel murder, assassination; something which took place to a certain extent unprecedented at the time that it took place. Now, what do we see when we look at this situation? What we see essentially is... 27/06/2019 | 17:09:39 I would like to say that a part of my delegation left today to my home country for yesterday's reasons. I continue to be here because the Boris Nemtsov report was prepared for years and years and they should be here preparing the overview and evaluation of this key hero of a pro-democracy and pro-European Russia who was killed. How do we see that from a political background and for political reasons in front of the Kremlin? So I would like to present this report being friendly to Russia. If... 26/06/2019 | 17:06:17 Dear friends, today is a crucial day. I am here since 1993, more or less 25 years in the Assembly. I remember all of the most important debates in our Assembly. They were mostly not geopolitical. But yesterday –sorry I cannot describe our voting as geopolitical– well we sat at night until one o'clock. Most people were talking about the need of Russia to be here. So I would like to ask only a few questions. Mr Leonid KALASHNIKOV said just two minutes ago that Russia's delegation is diverse... 24/06/2019 | 18:14:20 Dear President, dear Petra. Congratulations with your new elections and your new next five years in European Parliament. I, and probably most of my colleagues absolutely sure about your integrity and your person and goodwill to make a report, but today is not about that. Today is not about you as a brilliant person and a brilliant politician but it's about a very key issue related to the key basic event that not one of our resolution has reflected. So, I would like to ask you all who were... 10/04/2019 | 18:53:32 It is great to see everyone here. I am probably one of the longest serving members of the Parliamentary Assembly, first coming here in 1993. I remember early on I met Miguel Ángel Martínez Martínez from Spain, a leftist former fighter from Latin America. He told us new members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from middle Europe that he congratulated us as members of former left democratic struggle movements who fought to restore independence in the 1990s, which led to... 25/01/2019 | 12:17:47 It might be Friday, but we are talking about an important question that touches on our key European values. I am glad to say that Mr Arnaut discharged his duty seriously and scrupulously. Our rapporteur did an excellent job. The most important issue is our suggestion of holding more hearings, which Mr Jordi XUCLÀ mentioned. CPT hearings are extremely important. As Ms Thorhildur Sunna ÆVARSDÓTTIR has just said, not many executives even know what they are. Finally, we should implement CPT... 24/01/2019 | 11:07:58 On Tuesday, my friend and colleague Mr Andreas NICK, in the discussion of a Magnitsky Law, stated truthfully that it should be based purely on the requirements of international law. I agree. Looking at this situation purely from the perspective of international law, all international law agreements have been violated by the Russian aggression against Ukraine, Georgia, and the Republic of Moldova. I have been coming here since 1993. I remember that, in 1996, the Assembly voted in favour of...