24/06/2026 | 19:28:00 Dear colleagues, First of all, I would like to thank the rapporteur for the excellent job. This is a super important report. And I want to be frank with you, when this report was prepared, and during the Committee meeting, and with the amendments we were looking at during the Committee meeting, I heard from some members, they said to me, "You know, it should be more general. Too much Ukraine here". Dear colleagues, it shouldn't be this way. Ukraine is the country which makes the biggest input... 24/06/2026 | 16:44:32 Thank you very much. Dear Mr Frank SCHWABE, I just want to remind you how we had debates here when many members of this Assembly were voting to take Russia back, saying we need to have them here, when we were telling you everything that's going on. And I want to tell you now, first problems first. We have a huge problem in our Organisation. One of our member states is killed every day. And just to be effective and to defend all ourselves and our values, we need to be pragmatic. And... 24/06/2026 | 16:35:17 Thank you, dear Chairman. Thank you, dear colleagues. And I want to be frank with you. I will not vote for this report. And I will explain why. Not because I don't care about democracy, rule of law and human rights. I do care about them. And that's why I will not vote for this report today. I think it's not the best moment to have this report. We need to answer one question: what is our aim? If our aim is to get rid of Azerbaijan from this organisation, then we are on the right way with this... 23/06/2026 | 18:47:41 Dear colleagues, It's an extremely important report and I want to thank the rapporteur, and we definitely all need to support this report, because we made one big mistake, not once, but several times. We tried to co-exist with regimes which already decided that we should not exist at all. I speak about Iran, I speak about Russia and all the time we try to co-exist with them. It doesn't work. The Iranian regime should be destroyed as well as the Russian regime, because that is the only way to... 22/06/2026 | 17:15:28 Thank you, Chairman. Dear colleagues, Russia and the Russian capital, Moscow, is being bombed. Moscow is burning. Can you imagine such headlines 10 years ago? Five years ago? Or even three or four years ago, at the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion? Now that's exactly what's happening almost every day. And Russian social media is now full of videos of Russians crying, screaming, with explosions in the background. Yes, Ukrainians proved again that we shouldn't be underestimated. But... 23/04/2026 | 10:16:03 Thank you. Thank you very much. Dear Chair, Dear colleagues. You know, maybe the worst thing which is happening right now is that the war in Ukraine became a routine. For the fifth year, we're here speaking about the Russian full-scale invasion. Great words by the Rapporteur. Thank you, Mr Frank SCHWABE. But again we're saying "we must", "we will", "let us show". And the war continues and already less people speak every session, less and less people speak in Ukrainian debates. That's true... 22/04/2026 | 19:28:04 Thank you very much. And also thanks to the rapporteur for a great job done. And this is a very important report, I think. But I want to remind you how everything started. So there was the Magnitsky case and there was Mr William BROWDER who started to work to create the "Magnitsky List" and list of sanctions against people involved. Definitely, it's not just these persons. It's Russia and the Russian regime and Mr Vladimir PUTIN. And it's clear. And then these personal sanctions were imposed... 22/04/2026 | 17:09:42 Dear President, dear colleagues, Let us be frank and clear. We all here are against the death penalty. This is one of the core values of the Council of Europe. It's something which we should continue to do. There is no question about this at all. I want to thank our rapporteur for a great job done, but I want to speak now about hypocrisy, because what we saw around this report is a real hypocrisy. When this report – much-needed report, very important report – was used to attack the state of... 22/04/2026 | 16:13:29 Commissioner, The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine caused the worst violations of human rights on the continent after the Second World War. I understand that your capacity and possibilities to help people on the occupied territory is limited, but I ask you to do the best you can do. Also, unfortunately, we have internal problems on controlled territories. One of these problems is a violent and brutal mobilisation organised by mobilisation teams, the so-called Territorial Center of... 20/04/2026 | 12:33:01 Thank you very much. Dear President, Dear colleagues, Today, we all see that the world is on fire. The war continues, and we all see what's happening in the Middle East. And we all see the price of resources. The Strait of Hormuz and now the whole geo-economy is under threat, and the whole geopolitics is under threat. And when the war continues, Russia is not just attacking on the battlefield. Russia is trying to take control of critical minerals and critical resources. And one more attempt...