29/01/2020 | 19:58:50 Thank you. Colleagues, the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) has presented a draft resolution to which 21 amendments have been tabled. I want to remind you that members of the delegation of the Russian Federation whose credentials are challenged may sit provisionally with the same rights as other Assembly members until the Assembly has reached a decision. However, those members shall not vote in any... 28/01/2020 | 20:09:31 What is the opinion of the Committee? “The Committee is against by a large majority.” Okay. Now I shall put the amendment to the vote. The vote is open. You're very quick this time. The vote is now closed. I call for the result. The amendment is rejected. Now we move to, actually, the whole draft resolution. There is a simple majority needed. We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in document 15021 as amended. Now the vote is open. Now we're voting for the whole... 28/01/2020 | 20:03:55 Okay. There is an unanimous support from the committee for this one. But we still have to put it on the vote, anyhow. So the vote is open. The vote is closed. And I call the result. The sub-amendment is agreed. Sorry, I am in a similar situation as Mr Hendrik DAEMS when he was heading yesterday the meeting for the first time from here that he had a little bit of hiccups regarding how to go with all the procedures. I have the same. I'm for the first time here, so I try to train myself also... 28/01/2020 | 20:00:05 Good. Does anyone object for this unanimous decision by the committee? As I cannot see any objection, I declare that amendments number 5 and number 2 to the draft resolution have been now agreed. We move now to the other amendments, and we start with Amendment number 8. I call actually Ms Lesia ZABURANNA to support Amendment No 8. You have 30 seconds. She is not here. Does anybody else wish to support this amendment? Okay. Does it imply that then we move to the next amendment as a whole. So... 27/01/2020 | 12:52:18 Mr President, may I first also congratulate you for your election on behalf of the Socialist, Democrat and Green Group of this Parliamentary Assembly. Congratulations, we will support you in your important job. Secondly, I would also like to congratulate the new Vice President of the organisation, but in particular I would like to say thanks for the outgoing President Lillian PASQUIER. You've made a very, very, very great job in very difficult times. We will continue the same job in terms of... 26/06/2019 | 16:07:06 Madam Chair, I'm a bit puzzled of recently the discussion here by these two days. I have some elementary questions for you all. First, is the Council of Europe, by its essence, a human rights organisation or an institution to solve international conflicts? Secondly, are human rights better protected in Russia if that country is out of Council of Europe than inside it? Thirdly, out of all pending applications in European Court of Human Rights, 13 000 - that is 20% of all - are from Russia. The... 24/06/2019 | 19:06:11 Madam Chair, thanks to Ms Petra De SUTTER for this compromise minded report. Dear colleagues, this is my first speech here in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. I'm proud to be present at the world's leading parliamentary forum to discuss Human rights. I am also very pleased to listen to the discussion today that has been useful and of course has had opposing views on the item we are discussing. But I think that we all share something. All of us share something. First of all...