26/04/2023 | 17:29:28 Thank you very much indeed. I, too, would like to thank the rapporteur for producing an interesting report. I want to address the situation in Türkiye and Syria. Before I do so, let me offer my condolences for the loss of life that occurred with the earthquakes there. My colleague Ms Kate OSAMOR has just commented on the experiment that the UK government had at the weekend for an emergency signal that occurred via phones. It did not actually work on mine, but you know that is part of an... 25/04/2023 | 19:32:28 I too would like to thank the rapporteur. I'm sure she has been the first to observe that the speeches that have been given today have been of the unanimous view that she is right in what she is proposing. It's lovely to be in this Parliamentary Assembly when there is such a common view. Let me congratulate Morocco on what it has done and what it has achieved. I too have been observing the performance of Morocco. I think, as we have just heard, it is a spectacular success story. I do think we... 25/04/2023 | 18:06:17 Thank you very much. I personally support the European Convention on Human Rights and I support the Court. I'm aware that many say that it was applicable in the 1950s, but is not applicable today. With war at the heart of Europe and the rise of extremist views, there has never been a better time for this Convention. The importance of national constitutions is now at the heart of the Convention. It's at the heart of the convention as a result of the Brighton Declaration of 2012, which was... 26/01/2023 | 17:52:43 Thank you very much. I would like to thank Mr Piero FASSINO for this report. I would say that, wouldn't I? I am one of his rapporteurs, so I have a self-interest in doing that, but I think his report is a good report. But you know, whether it is Mr FASSINO or the previous chairs of this committee, there is one thing that I have never been invited to, and I think it is because it has never occurred, and that is a discussion on what being a rapporteur is all about. I think it's absolutely... 25/01/2023 | 17:48:58 Let me offer my congratulations to the rapporteurs for their excellent publications. But I stand here ashamed of my own country. I'm ashamed of the UK. Many of you will have seen over the last few days the stories that have been running about the police force. You will have seen today perhaps that the head of the Met Police in the UK has said that two or three police officers every week will appear in court to answer charges. It is quite right that they should, but it is absolutely terrible... 25/01/2023 | 15:33:49 Thank you, Madam President. It's good to see you in the Chair. I asked for this debate, because I think it is important that the Council of Europe keep an eye on and keep abreast of the tensions that there are in Europe. Nobody who has looked at Serbia and Kosovo over recent months can believe that there are no tensions. There are tensions. We need, very much, to be ahead of the game. We saw –with the case of Russia and Ukraine– that we were not ahead of the game. We did not call for the... 25/01/2023 | 11:23:00 I thank you very much for this debate. I thank everyone who has spoken. It has been quite emotional for me to hear such tributes to the debate that we have heard. I would just like to read you an email that is typical of the emails that I have received on this. It's from somebody who says: "I am a law professor currently seconded to an organisation in a member country". He says: "the idea of combining, on the one hand, the effective and crossed implementation of human rights and humanitarian... 25/01/2023 | 10:14:43 Thank you very much. I probably will not take my 7 minutes, because the list of speakers in this debate is very long. I want to get as many people in as possible. The contents of this report I think are absolutely important and are crucial. They fit in very well with the Icelandic premiership –the Icelandic Chairmanship I should say– of this Council, which has a priority of stressing the importance of the natural environment. What they say about that is that there must be an exploration of... 24/01/2023 | 16:46:04 Thank you very much. And I'd like to start off by thanking the rapporteur for her excellent report. I mean, it goes to the heart of establishing some general principles on which we can operate. I also support her unequivocal support of Ukraine and I think that is an important point to make. I have the task in the UK of saying to my Prime Minister why he should attend this Summit. For me that is no problem. I can think of many reasons why he should attend this Summit, but it is very difficult... 24/01/2023 | 11:20:22 Thank you very much. Let me begin by congratulating the rapporteur. Congratulating her for not only the way in which she has described these crimes but introducing the whole concept to us. But we need to be careful in this hemicycle in how we describe these crimes. We need to be careful because, under the general term of war crimes, the impact of these crimes is lost. What we are talking about here is a real cause of crime, a real case of evil in the world today. I am aware that this sort of...