01/10/2024 | 16:58:55 "Thank you very much, Madam President" [spoken in French]. Dear colleagues, I'm speaking now on behalf of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons. We will start with the report by Lord RUSSELL addressing the issue of migrant smuggling, because it's one of the priorities of the Council of Europe now and I think for the years to come. Discussions are ongoing to agree on a joint strategy. For the past ten years, the European Committee on Crime Problems has developed an action... 01/10/2024 | 10:41:48 Thank you, President. Thank you, dear rapporteur. But I want to speak about, you know, this very important report – propaganda. But this is just a part of a hybrid war. Hybrid war which Russia and its allies, North Korea, Iran, all these – their crazy terrorist proxies – Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, and standing behind all of them, China, is conducting against the civilised world. This is the war. And we need to protect our people, both from propaganda and from their direct attacks. And we are... 27/06/2024 | 18:33:17 Thank you. Thank you, Mister President. I would like to start absolutely clearly. I stand with Israel. I want to say this openly, and I don't care if it is fashionable or not fashionable. I just want to say what I think, what I see, and I am saying I stand with Israel. Yes, the war is awful. Every war is awful. But in the war there are those who started it, and it was not Israel. It was Hamas on 7 October who attacked Israel, who killed people, raped people, who took hostages, and still 120... 27/06/2024 | 18:03:55 Thank you very much. Thank you to all colleagues who took part in the debate. Thank you. I think everybody agreed that it is a very important report, very timely. Thank you very much for supporting it. I think everybody agrees, so it's nothing to react on. But just I want to to ask all of you to vote for this report. It's very important. I would like once again to thank both Mr Domagoj HAJDUKOVIĆ. I'm sure he will hear us for his job. Also I would like to thank our brilliant Secretariat of... 27/06/2024 | 17:21:16 Dear colleagues, thank you very much. Yes, yesterday here we had the Olympic flame, today's Zeus the thunder master is sending greetings to us, so it means a lot, I think. And now we're moving to a very important debate: "Post-conflict time: defusing ticking time bombs for a safe return of displaced populations." And I want to tell you, dear colleagues, that this report was crafted, prepared by Mr Domagoj HAJDUKOVIĆ, our former colleague, who I hope will be welcomed back soon in our Assembly... 27/06/2024 | 12:39:54 Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Dear colleagues. Extremely important report. I want to thank Ms Lise SELNES and the fantastic Secretariat of our Committee for a fantastic job done in very short terms because it was really done in very short terms. But we don't have time to waste, unfortunately, because there are very serious questions right now with Ukrainian displaced people both internally and externally. That's why this is so in time. I just want to remind you that the crisis with... 27/06/2024 | 11:21:31 Thank you, President. Dear colleagues, Thank you very much for the support. That's the only one Amendment on which I and colleagues we insist. Only one. But this is very important, because it's saying about the Georgian path to the European Union. It's saying about recent statements of Bidzina Ivanishvili about justifying the Russian Federation's war of aggression against Ukraine. I said about this in my speech. This is very dangerous, and we need to put our attention on this. We can't put... 27/06/2024 | 10:44:25 Thank you. Thank you, chair. First of all, I want to congratulate the Georgian football team and Georgia with this great success. Kartuli pekhburtis su'per [speaks in Georgian]. That's true, Georgian football is super and that's great news. Unfortunately, that's the last great news for Georgia today because what we see there, is not about Russian law, it's not just about democracy, it's about losing its independence. That's very important to understand. We are just seeing with our eyes the... 26/06/2024 | 17:32:58 Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Dear friends, now it's a very symbolical moment, so many viewers, so many of us here, why? Because the Olympic Flame is on the way here, and we will speak now here and we will watch the Olympic Flame. But what are the Olympic Games? It's a symbol of peace, and we are now speaking about reconciliation processes and peace in the future, that is very important. But I want to remind all of you that when we will watch with you the Olympic Flame, the war continues... 26/06/2024 | 10:47:17 Thank you, dear Chair. Let us have a serious talk. Yes, the Russian Empire is a colossus on clay feet, but besides these clay feet, and the reason why they still exist, is that they have three pillars: gas, oil, steel. This is the reality. And after more than two years of a full-scale invasion, after more than 10 years of war in Ukraine, what do we see from the point of view of sanctions? In May, so last month, Russia became again the number one gas supplier to the European Union. More than...