21/04/2026 | 20:05:44 Sure, Mister President. Thank you very much. I would like to start with the statement that I totally disagree with the position of Mr José María SÁNCHEZ GARCÍA. For my 12 years in this Committee, I could state that the election of judges by this Assembly is absolutely transparent and independent. So, as the second, there was a little bit of discussion about how many rapporteurs have that report, one or two. I would like to congratulate a rapporteur, Ms Petra BAYR, who was, at that time, on 12... 03/10/2025 | 11:45:44 Thank you. Thank you, President. Because there were no questions, it will be easy to speak. And the first thing I would like to start with is to thank once more the Secretariat for their brilliant job, the Committee for their brilliant job, the President and the Bureau, who put that issue on Friday as the last one. So that is also very good. We debated it freely and openly. And by the way, I would like to support the President in his reaction on our Armenian colleagues' intervention. And by... 03/10/2025 | 11:08:50 Thank you. Thank you, Mister President. I would like to start with a note, but that's maybe quite tricky, to discuss the issue of participation of members on Friday. I think everybody knows what I'm talking about, but today I see that, for a Friday, there is a lot of people. Yes, but talking seriously. On the one hand, we have a problem with active participation, which is sure and which is part of Ms Petra BAYR's report also in our Committee. And on the other hand, we have several attempts of... 23/06/2021 | 18:05:04 Thank you, Madam Chair. First of all I would like to sincerely thank the rapporteur for her tremendous job because that report is very very important for dozens of thousands of people, of Crimean Tatars who suffered from the violation of their basic human rights. I have a rhetorical question to the Assembly. What are the similarities among the Navalny case, the Russian political prisoners, the LGBT people of the North Caucasus, on the war in Georgia or illegal annexation of Crimea and the... 22/04/2021 | 11:17:38 Thank you President. Many colleagues already mentioned that we are discussing not the case of Alexei Navalny. We are discussing the question of violation of human rights and the question of the implementation of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. That's the issue, despite the fact that Alexei Navalny is a prominent anti-corruption activist and the opposition leader in the Russian Federation. By the way, the representatives of the Russian authority mentioned that there is... 27/01/2021 | 16:33:34 Thank you, madam chair. I would like to say that today's topic is not the topic of Mr Navalny. Let's be honest, despite the fact that Mr Navalny is a prominent corruption fighter and one of the leaders of the Russian opposition. That's the topic of the attitude of the Russian State towards the rule of law, human rights and the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights. And that is the topic, how the Russian Federation as a state is reacting on any question which is sensitive to them. We... 26/01/2021 | 10:26:09 Thank you, Chairman. First of all I would like to thank the rapporteur for his brilliant job. For me, as a Ukrainian, it's a pity to see that my country is on the top of the list after the Russian Federation and Turkey, talking about the amount of appeals to the European Court of Human Rights. As a Ukrainian I understand that that is a result of a lack of reforms in the judiciary in my country. But we are trying to improve the situation. First of all, I would I would like to say that at the... 25/01/2021 | 19:06:44 Thank you Madam Chair. I would once more like to call this assembly to use the wording which was already used by this assembly talking about the Crimea. The Crimea is not a Russian territory as we heard from Mr Petr TOLSTOI. That is illegally annexed Ukrainian territory. And we should support that. We already did that in different resolutions. I named two of them. We should use the same wording in different documents. By the way, that is not only the wording of the parliamentary assembly... 30/01/2020 | 10:40:32 Thank you, Mr President. I would like to start my speech quoting the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, who said that "peace remains the best protection for children's rights". Peace is the best protection of children's rights. It's a real disaster for me personally that now in the 21st century we are talking about children at war, not from the historical perspective, but because of its reality. And I will give you just one number: 420 million children are living in war or conflict zones...