22/04/2021 | 11:33:14 Yes. There were two amendments that I prepared and as a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, I gave them to the Committee and they were supported. The first one: the report started with the words that Mr Alexei Navalny went to Germany for rehabilitation after serious illness. Sorry, but we all know that it was poisoning. I want to thank the rapporteur who supported it and now we have the alleged poisoning in the text. That is very important. But if we have poisoning... 22/04/2021 | 10:49:15 In the Navalny case everything is absolutely clear. They tried to poison him, this was done at Putin's order by FSB agents. And when he miraculously survived and returned from medical treatment in Germany, he was arrested, he was thrown into prison and that was a spit in the face of the European Court of Human Rights. Now we are here for the European Court of Human Rights to be able to work, to have judgements that are truly executed. I mean, what are we to do when a country spits in the... 21/04/2021 | 13:08:57 Thank you. It is also important because in addressing to European Union we already have in recommendation the point that all cooperation with Belarus authorities should be conditional on stopping political repression and making political prisoners free. But in the point about member states we, for the moment, don't have it. So I think we need to put it and to make all cooperations with Belarus authorities, all cooperations, political, economical, financial conditional to what is happening... 21/04/2021 | 13:01:08 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Dear colleagues, This is a very important amendment. I raised this issue in January during the address by Mr Heiko Maas, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, to our Assembly. That we need such permanent body that will look after human rights situation in, first of all human rights situation, in Belarus. He, in his answer, supported it. After this I spoke with Madam Secretary General Marija PEJČINOVIĆ-BURIĆ. She also supported it. I hope that after adoption of... 21/04/2021 | 11:47:24 Thank you, Mister Chairman. Dear colleagues, First of all, I would like to thank the rapporteurs for their brilliant work. There really are two brilliant reports and today we can really adopt powerful, mightful resolution. What is going on in Belarus now? We have a usurper and dictator, Lukashenko, which is killing his own people. Over more than 30,000 people were put in jail. Hundreds of political prisoners just now, right now. Belarus is like a concentration camp inside Europe. What he is... 20/04/2021 | 14:06:48 Dear colleagues, First of all, I would like to say sorry for being emotional. I think that you can all understand it if you think about the fact that every day, Ukrainian soldiers are killed. We are currently under an enormous amount of pressure. I was never aware of the rule that we cannot show national flags. Yesterday one of our colleagues showed photos during the debate and nobody interrupted him. I was not aware of this rule. I'm sorry for this. About the amendment, it's extremely... 20/04/2021 | 11:11:24 Dear Colleagues, It is an extremely important question, and "strategic priorities of the Council of Europe" are such important words. Now, just several minutes ago, Chancellor Angela MERKEL reminded us of the words of Konrad Adenauer who said that we are "the conscience of Europe". The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Council of Europe in general, "the conscience of Europe": such important words. She said that many things changed, but this is something which will not... 28/01/2021 | 10:26:21 Thank you very much. As I said in my speech, the report is really great. Thanks again to rapporteur or for all the work done. But the only word is absent there is a small word, "not", "not ratify". Dear colleagues, I want to ask all of you to support it. It's about prinicples. You will see that in one or two years, you will see the results. You will say, "Yes, I should vote "not" at this moment". II just want to tell you that we will challenge the credentials of the Russian delegation. You... 28/01/2021 | 10:02:09 Thank you very much, Mister President. I just want to stress the attention of everybody. When at the beginning you, Mister President, told us that there are rules of conduct here, of behaviour, I think you didn't mention that it's okay to say that one delegate is a dog. Everybody who is here, who understands the English language -maybe Mr Leonid SLUTSKIY doesn't understand - knows that I didn't say this. I think you should say something to these... I don't know what to call them. In the... 28/01/2021 | 09:15:22 Thank you, Mister Chairman. It is a big honor to speak first on behalf of the European Conservative Group on this extremely important issue. We are now discussing a very important topic. I want to thank rapporteur Mr Stefan SCHENNACH for the really great work which was done by him. But I can't understand one thing: if you read all his report, at the end it should read "not ratify credentials". It's a logical conclusion of what is written in the report. It looks very strange for me that in the...