21/06/2022 | 19:27:25 Thank you so much, Mr President. It is a little bit unexpected. I do not know if I need it, so I really would like to thank all of you, I think it is very clear and it is very clear again that we are very united on the question of not just Russia's aggression towards Ukraine but on the human rights violations in Russia and how to deal with it, as well. I would like to thank those, in this organisation, who are really committed to human rights and who are working very hard on the issues and... 21/06/2022 | 18:18:40 It is not so easy, Mr President, but now we made it. Mr President, Dear Colleagues, People in Dagestan and Ossetia and Chechnya were suffering. A lot of them are really suffering in this time. You cannot speak about the human rights situation in Russia without mentioning the Russian war against Ukraine. It is in these minutes where Russia is committing a crime of the aggression of war and war crimes on the territory of Ukraine. I think you cannot understand the aggression outside of the... 21/06/2022 | 15:54:41 Thank you very much, Mr President. Dear Minister, Thank you very much for your chairmanship and your leadership. You mentioned the fourth summit, something that is really in a way, hopefully, in the end historical for this organisation. Historical in a very good way. We do not need to renew our values because the values are good. We have to renew the willingness to fight for those values and to make it very clear that all those countries have to follow those values and the judgments of the... 21/06/2022 | 12:24:13 Dear Mr President, dear Minister, dear Secretary General, dear Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, and I think we have no doubts if Belarus would deal with the values like we understand it, you would be the elected President of Belarus. So, thank you very much that you are accepting our invitation and thank you very much that we share common values and some common aims for Europe. And we expressed this in a report in April, we decided here in this Assembly. And we agree the best would be that if we... 20/06/2022 | 11:58:01 A point of order, I just want to argue in favour. I think we have to elaborate this whole procedure in the Presidential Committee because I think it's not clear what the situation is. Let's imagine if we had four or five proposals – what does it mean? We vote in favour of the first two, and nobody is aware that the last three are following. So we really have to check it. But I for sure would like to speak in favour, to have the current affairs debate on the agreement on asylum seekers between... 20/06/2022 | 11:55:26 First, I understand that you need a certain majority to change the decision of the Bureau. Second, there was no possibility to speak against, no? It is not foreseen to have a...? The problem is just that I think we have to explain before we decide on something why we vote in this direction, no? At the end we can have maybe 20 current affairs debates, but this would mean that we don't have space for the usual debates. And I think the colleagues are not aware of it. And this was the reason, I'm... 27/04/2022 | 17:10:47 Thank you very much, Mr President. Thank you very much, dear colleagues, for this extensive and intense debate. I would like to say, first things first, I would like to say that I'm very happy to see so many Ukrainian colleagues. We had this visit in Ukraine and the situation is still horrible but anyhow it's good to have you here and we try to do everything that we keep you on working as an organisation, we provide for all this all the best. Second one, I want to thank the Secretariat for... 27/04/2022 | 12:29:53 Thank you very much, caro signor Presidente [dear Mr President]. Thank you very much that you are here with us and for your important speech, especially in these challenging times. Considering the threats of new dividing lines and all the challenges Europe is facing for its security, its values, the protection of human rights, international law, and the impact these have on our organisation, we, as a Socialist, Democrats, and Greens Group, consider that the fourth Summit of Heads of State and... 27/04/2022 | 10:08:27 Mr President, Thank you very much. When we awake at the morning at the 24 February, we awake in another world, in another Europe, and in another Council of Europe, as well. And if I think about it, and I think if we all think about it, it's still unbelievable. As Council of Europe, as the Parliamentary Assembly, we did what was necessary. Nothing nice, but what was necessary to act very responsibly, very unanimously, and we excluded the Russian Federation from this organisation. But now we... 26/04/2022 | 15:40:00 Thank you very much, Mr President, Madam Secretary General. Usually I would like to ask and to have a question about Ukraine for sure, the situation there... but since we have a lot of other opportunities to speak about it tomorrow and the day after tomorrow I would like to put attention to another deep crisis we face since long, but we show it really very clear yesterday that there seems to be countries who think that in the shadow of this conflict and Russia's aggression towards Ukraine...