26/01/2026 | 11:25:15 I just would like to ask 10 members from five delegations to support their current proposal. Yes. Thank you very much [spoken in German]. I think it's enough. The challenge has the support required by the rules of procedure. Accordingly, [for] the credentials of the Polish delegation, members are referred without debate to the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs. The Committee shall report within 24 hours if possible. And, at the same time, it will be... 26/01/2026 | 11:21:38 So, that challenge under Rule 7. I'm forced to cite that, is reminding the Parliamentary Assembly that under Rule 7, a challenge must be supported by at least 10 members. Thank you, colleagues. It seems, and at least from five national delegations, five present in the Chamber. Would those members support the challenge, please? It was done. Raise your hands. Yes, the challenge has the support required by the Rules of Procedure. [I am] just declaring that it exceeded the numbers and, according... 26/01/2026 | 11:11:43 Dear colleagues and friends, We are approaching the opening of the session. Please take your seats. I declare the First Part-Session of the 2026 Ordinary Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe open. Welcome, allow me to say a few words in the beginning. In 1960, Ms Marie-Antoinette von LOWZOW, leader of the Danish parliamentary group here in this Assembly, recognised, in the resolution adopted by all parties, that the Baltic States were temporarily occupied by the... 02/10/2025 | 12:19:08 One drop of Palestinian blood has no lesser weight than one drop of Jewish blood. My mother spent four years in Nazi camps. During those four years, she watched Allied aircraft flying overhead on their way to bomb Nazi fortresses, but they never targeted the fence of those camps. She felt that if there had been a Jewish state at the time, it might have come to attack those fences and liberate hundreds of thousands, who later became millions, of Holocaust victims. So I welcome the speech of my... 01/10/2025 | 19:18:54 Thank you so much, dear friends. So I have been here since the beginning of 1993. So even in the democratic time – the few years of Russian democracy, when I negotiated with Mr Boris YELTSIN the deal about the independence of Lithuania, Boris NIKOLAYEVICH YELTSIN told me that it would be impossible to delete KGB nomenclature from our network. My answer was that the KGB would come back. So the KGB is just ruling the country. And our war is a war against Russia, not only against Vladimir PUTIN... 01/10/2025 | 11:43:50 Dear friends, We are just facing the expansion not only of Russia, but the expansion of Soviet Russia Stalinist rule to the whole of Europe with their hybrid operations and expansion of the territory of Russia during their violent war against the sovereign, independent and democratic Ukraine. I was asking my friends in India, how do you think we should have a united democratic world in favour of defending democracies? Defending democracies against the invasion of a totalitarian state and... 26/06/2025 | 18:15:22 Thank you. After yesterday's huge historical day, it's really a pity to have today our final meeting related to our dear Georgia and Georgian friends. And I would like to repeat all the names who are now in prison and they were just with us a few months ago. Just mention, my dear Lord. Mamuka KHAZARADZE, Badri JAPARIDZE, Zurab JAPARIDZE, Nika GVARAMIA, Nika MELIA, Giorgi VASHADZE. And tomorrow Givi TARGAMADZE is invited to this unlawful, fake commission to investigate what they did tens and... 25/06/2025 | 16:19:55 Thank you dear friends. We have just finished our meeting in the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, overviewing your great job done by the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons, but sorry some amendments were rejected and we will discuss these amendments here for a very clear reason. A very clear reason. Israel was attacked, and from our point of view, of course, Israeli blood and Arab blood have the same value, that's clear. But until now we have hostages in Gaza... 24/06/2025 | 17:28:53 Thank you dear friends. Today we are on the eve of the signing tomorrow by Mr ZELENSKYY and other leaders of the establishment of the Special Tribunal. After we spent years and years trying to establish the Register of Damages. And the Register of Damages, which is now working in the Hague, is only in its second stage. Can you imagine? We are only on the second stage of the Register of Damages, which means we have no compensation mechanism at a moment when the Ukrainian authorities donated... 24/06/2025 | 12:29:09 Yes, we see that on the screen. Thank you, dear President. So my question is related to your very important chairmanship. In the most uncertain time, when synchronised attacks by Russia, China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea's totalitarian regime on us are implicated on an everyday basis, hybrid attacks and others, so the Register established is only in the second phase, how to make the Register's implementation in the Hague quicker? Second, after these uploads to your site about the Special...