25/06/2025 | 11:50:37 Thank you very much, Mr President. And thank you colleagues, I think, for a very substantial discussion on the true report and of course, specially, I will direct my words to my report. And thank you also for some questions raised. I think the very, very important thing to outline here is that sport is not superior to international conventions and treaties. The obligation to fully respect the international human standards and rights, they must take precedence over the need to ensure the... 25/06/2025 | 10:12:29 Thank you very much, Mr President, Dear colleagues, It is with great enthusiasm that I present the report entitled “The Olympic Movement and peacekeeping: is sport neutrality serving sport values?”, which the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media unanimously adopted on 7 April. Sport, at its very best, is a unifying force. It brings people together across borders, languages and ideologies. It builds bridges in times of tension and provides common ground where politics cannot. The... 24/06/2025 | 11:22:52 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights are fundamental and cornerstone pillars of European co-operation. This has been the case since the end of the Second World War and it must remain so in the future, it is necessary, it is important. However, to ensure that this continues, it is crucial that both the Convention and the Court's work and judgments are respected by the populations these institutions are meant to... 09/04/2025 | 17:22:29 Dear colleagues, The next item of business this morning, or this afternoon, is a debate on the urgent procedure on the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. The need to ensure accountability and avoid impunity, which is in Doc. 16152, presented by Mr Iulian BULAI on behalf of the Committee of Legal Affairs and Human Rights. Colleagues, in order to finish by 6:45 p.m., I will interrupt the list of speakers at about 6:25 p.m. to allow time for reply and vote. But now we just need, I think... 08/04/2025 | 17:04:49 Thank you. Does anyone want to speak against the amendment? That is not the case. The committee rejected this amendment with a two-thirds majority. I will now put it to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the result. Amendment 12 is rejected. Now we will proceed to vote on the draft resolution as amended. A simple majority is required here. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the results. The draft resolution, as amended, is adopted. We will now... 29/01/2025 | 17:52:17 Thank you very much, Mister President. And I have to excuse our rapporteur first, the Chair of the Committee, as she had to leave because she had to catch a plane for an important meeting. But what we've heard here today is a debate that well illustrates a general approach of the members of this Assembly that we all care for our values, we all care for democracy and the rule of law, and we all care for human rights. We are concerned whenever there is a threat to these values in any of our... 28/01/2025 | 12:03:37 Thank you very much, Madam President. Dear colleagues, as already many of you have mentioned, we stand in a crossroad when it comes to global governance. The rule-based international order, established to uphold peace, justice, and co-operation, is facing unprecedented challenges. We have witnessed, all of us, the tragic consequences of power politics, authoritarianism and unilateralism, such as the war of aggression against Ukraine, and also the escalating violence and war in the Middle East... 27/01/2025 | 17:32:50 Okay. So if no one objects, I'll consider the amendments to be rejected. Is there any objection? There is an objection. But we need 10. Are there any more than one objections? Please. We need 10 persons, but there is only 1. Amendments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 6 of the draft resolution are therefore rejected and will not be called. Thank you. We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Document [16086] [as amended]. A simple majority is required for that, so now you are... 27/01/2025 | 17:30:42 Thank you very much, Zanda. Now the debate is closed. The Bureau has proposed a number of references to committees for ratification by the Assembly. They are set out in Document 16096 and Addendum 1. And I want to know is there any objection to the proposed references to committees? It doesn't seem to be the case. So the references are approved. And I now propose that the other decisions in the progress report be ratified. Are there any objections to that? There is not. So the progress report... 30/09/2024 | 15:46:07 Thank you very much, Mister President and also thank you, Mister BULAI for the progress report. I would like to focus on the very sad fact that, since we were here last, that the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan has announced that 76 of us members of this Assembly is now to be considered as persona non grata in the country, not allowing us to enter Azerbaijan. The reason for that is that we, in a full, democratic process in this Assembly have voted, according to our conscience and democratic...