02/10/2024 | 10:44:37 Thank you, Madam Chairperson, dear colleagues, I want to extend my deep appreciation to our rapporteur for her important report addressing a matter that has sparked considerable concern both across Europe, the US, and beyond. I fully share the rapporteur's deep alarm over the profound implications that Mr Julian ASSANGE's previous continued detention and eventual conviction under the Espionage Act entails for the future of press freedom, human rights and investigative journalism. The findings... 01/10/2024 | 19:02:17 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, Seventy-five years of Israeli illegal occupation of Palestine and continuous ethnic cleansing. Seventy-five years of violations of international law and human rights and the collective punishment of the Palestinian people. Decades of enforced apartheid regime in the West Bank and an open-air prison in Gaza. One year of continuous genocide in Gaza and the murder of tens of thousands of civilians, the majority of whom are women and children. One... 01/10/2024 | 10:27:11 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, I would like to thank Mr Stefan SCHENNACH for his diligent work on this matter of utmost importance. The report correctly underlines key concerns regarding the impact of propaganda on public opinion, democratic values and human dignity. States, including Council of Europe member states that we represent, are becoming much more adept at using propaganda techniques against their own population to undermine free and fair elections, state... 30/09/2024 | 16:45:39 Dear colleagues, I want to thank the rapporteur Ms Eka SEPASHVILI for this report and the resolution before us that clearly acknowledge the diversity of projects and the range of social areas in which the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) is active. I also want to thank Mr Carlo MONTICELLI for his significant intervention. I keep many things from this. I kept many things, but the major one is that without social cohesion and inclusiveness, as we don't have growth, it's a prerequisite... 27/06/2024 | 19:11:58 Thank you, Mister Chair. I will continue in Greek, and I will continue from the point that my colleague Ms Thórhildur Sunna ÆVARSDÓTTIR and her speech. Imagine for a minute that you have been a Palestinian living in Gaza. Imagine if what is happening in Gaza happened in your country. Your country is under occupation, a terrorist organisation violating international law, committing crimes of war, attacks the occupier, and then coming here and justifying, by blaming this terrorist organisation... 27/06/2024 | 15:57:37 Thank you, Mister President. Allow me to thank Mr Piero FASSINO for this report that has taken much time and effort, but also the secretary of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy Mr Pavel CHEVTCHENKO for his precious assistance throughout. Dear colleagues, it has been decades since the Cyprus problem was discussed in the planetary session of the PACE. Unfortunately, as it was already said, in just a few days we will mark 50 years since the Turkish invasion and continuous... 26/06/2024 | 19:31:10 Dear colleagues, I want to thank the Co-Rapporteurs for this excellent report. I believe that Armenia will be able to move to the next stage of the post-monitoring procedure, provided it continues with the same engagement and determination on its ambitious reform programme. Armenia, dear colleagues, has achieved much progress in our key areas of concern despite a particularly hostile international environment since 2022. The reforms pursued have addressed all concerns identified by the... 26/06/2024 | 18:58:21 This amendment, as all the others in the resolution, in the recommendation, express our reservations in relation to the mandatory character of this proposal for a new mediation mechanism. There is no other precedent in international regional organisations where such a process is a mandatory one. So the proposal is to leave it as voluntary. Allow me to say that the proposals that were unanimously accepted by the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy were rejected in the Committee on... 26/06/2024 | 17:29:27 Thank you, Madam Chairperson. Dear colleagues, The Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy entrusted me with this opinion that we discussed yesterday and unanimously adapted together with a number of amendments. I wish to congratulate the rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Lord Richard KEEN for this important and innovative report, which keeps practical significance to the obligation taken up in Reykjavík last year, to give our Assembly and this organisation a... 18/04/2024 | 18:54:57 Yes. If you can give me a bit more time, I would be grateful, because I've just stopped speaking for a few seconds. These events occurred, and they speak for themselves. What I'd like to point out, is that I'm very dismayed by the Council of Europe's lack of action. All we've done up to now is to vote on a resolution which didn't call for an unconditional permanent ceasefire. It simply called on Israel to continue what it was doing in Gaza. In other words, to carry out a genocide until the...