11/10/2023 | 16:44:13 Dear President and colleagues, as said in the statement by the Nordic Baltic Chairs of delegations, Hamas' horrendous attack on Israeli towns last Saturday must be condemned in the strongest terms. The images we have seen of the cruelty that took place on the Nova music festival and elsewhere during the attack are the worst in humanity. What happened in Israel was clearly a terrorist attack on innocent people. Taking civilians, young people dancing, small children, old women as hostages is... 09/10/2023 | 17:09:41 Thank you, Mister President. Having Kosovo on our agenda is timely and important, especially given the escalation of tension we have seen lately, as well as our process of considering the country's application for membership of our organisation. Mister President, I'd join my colleagues here in this hemicycle in condemning the attack on the monastery in the north of Kosovo. Both sides must do their upmost to keep the level of conflict low, to lower tension and return to dialogue. Only through... 22/06/2023 | 17:05:23 Thank you, Madam President. This is an important debate. I congratulate Ms Linda Hofstad HELLELAND on her work and call on you all to support the draft resolution. Now I would like to start with the conclusion. As long as there is war in Ukraine, Russian and Belarusian athletes cannot be allowed to participate in the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris next year. Allowing them to participate under a neutral flag or banner is not acceptable either. Our Assembly must take a clear position on... 21/06/2023 | 16:36:40 Thank you, President. John. Thank you for the reflections, thank you for the support, thank you for the good messages of high value. I have to say that our budget is public money; therefore, our financial management cost-effectiveness and outputs must be of the highest standard. This is why reform and modernisations are important. Thanks to the efforts of the Secretary General and of the Deputy Secretary General, we are doing well. Through the result-based management strategy, the programme... 21/06/2023 | 15:49:32 Thank you Mister President, colleagues, The 4th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe set an ambitious political agenda for our organisation. The Reykjavík Declaration and its appendices gives the Council of Europe a roadmap for the coming years. At the Standing Committee meeting in Riga, we expressed our strong support to the Reykjavík Declaration and the proposals in it. Without going into detail, I will highlight a few key proposals: Firstly, showing... 20/06/2023 | 17:19:46 You agree, thank you. And the Committee is obviously in favour of the Amendment... unanimously, thank you. I will now put the oral sub-amendment to the vote. And the vote is open. And the vote is closed. I call for the results to be displayed. Thank you. And the oral sub-amendment is agreed to. We will now consider the main Amendment as amended. Does anyone wish to speak against the Amendment? That's not the case. What is the opinion of the Committee on the Amendment? Mister GALLES... 20/06/2023 | 17:17:43 Thank you. Does anyone else wish to support this Amendment? I don't see anyone. And I have been informed that Mr Paul GALLES wishes to propose an oral sub-amendment as follows and I read it: And this is about replacing the words: "The Assembly encourages the Security Service of Ukraine to co-operate with the Belarusian democratic forces in exile, particularly, with the Office of Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus and the Coordination Council" with – and here is... 20/06/2023 | 17:15:19 Thank you. The Committee is obviously in favour of the Amendment. Yes, it's so. I will know put the oral sub-amendment to the vote. The vote is open. And the vote is closed. I call for the results to be displayed. The oral sub-amendment is agreed to. We will now consider the main Amendment. Does anyone wish to speak against the Amendment? No, that's not so. What is the opinion of the Committee on the Amendment as amended? Mister Paul GALLES? In favour with a large majority. I shall now... 20/06/2023 | 17:09:43 Thank you Mr Paul GAVAN, the Vice-Chairperson of the Committee. And the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons presented a draft resolution in Document 15783 to which 6 amendments have been tabled. Amendments are listed in the Compendium. I remind you that speeches on amendments are limited to 30 seconds. I understand that the Vice-Chairperson of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons wishes to propose to the Assembly that Amendment 2 on the draft... 27/04/2023 | 19:51:15 Unanimously. I shall now put amendment 6 to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. Amendment 6 is agreed to. We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Document 15739. A simple majority is required. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. The draft resolution in Document 15739 is adopted. We will now consider the draft recommendation to which two amendments have been tabled. I remind you...