26/01/2022 | 16:40:35 Thank you, Mr President. I would like to intervene, because I was the chairman of the delegation that was supposed to make comments, but was not able to do so in Russia. Earlier, our Russian colleague said that this delegation of five people claimed that everything went very well in Russia. But we did not make the observation. We really were not enough. People from the OSCE and ODIHR could not go there because they did not have the means to make a real observation. The number of authorized... 24/01/2022 | 19:00:57 Thank you Mr. President. After all the years I have spent on the Migration Committee, I can claim to have a certain amount of experience. And I must say that I have a bitter observation. We are here in the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe is the temple of human rights, of the rule of law, of democracy; and the fate of migrants is a very important issue for us. We know that they are the poorest of the poor but the management of migration problems has deteriorated in Europe in recent... 30/09/2021 | 16:57:58 Thank you, Mr Deputy President. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear colleagues, This report is a response to the evolving situation of increased migration and asylum pressures at the borders of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland with Belarus. Pressures were orchestrated by the Belarusian authorities in response to the European Union sanctions against Belarus. This situation on the Belarusian border raises a number of serious concerns, in particular with regard to human rights. I congratulate Mrs Anne-Mari... 30/09/2021 | 10:13:31 Thank you, Madam Vice-President. Dear colleagues, My remarks will be divided into two parts: firstly, humanitarian issues and secondly, slightly more political remarks. There is indeed a great deal of concern about the current humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. Reference has been made to the problems of famine in particular, which are quite dramatic, and it is really important for me to try to maintain contact with the Taliban to ensure that humanitarian aid can continue to be provided... 29/09/2021 | 18:40:02 Thank you, Mister Vice-President. Ladies and gentlemen, Thank you very much to all the speakers and congratulations to my colleagues for their very relevant reports. I would like to take the liberty of responding to a few points that have, in fact, been made in the debate. I would first like to welcome the position and proposals of Mr Theodoros ROUSOPOULOS, from Greece, who insisted on respect for human rights – this is fundamental to the issue of climate migration, as it is to many other... 29/09/2021 | 17:21:01 Thank you, Mr Vice-President. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues, The Earth is getting warmer and this warming will have a profound impact on humanity. The obvious repercussions on human life are and will be highly variable depending on where people live and, above all, on their technological and financial capacity to adapt. The physical repercussions of global warming will, schematically, in the long run, take on two main aspects of the scenarios announced: either too much water in... 28/09/2021 | 11:53:15 Thank you, Madam Vice-President. Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, I would first like to congratulate our rapporteur on this excellent work on a subject that is so important, that of the inequalities that affect our various countries, with the social dramas that we know. As Chairman of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population, I would like to extend the subject to an aspect that will also affect the world around us, as I did in committee. We all remember the terrible tragedy... 27/09/2021 | 17:28:31 Thank you, Vice-President. Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues - I shall be brief. Last September, the continued conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh went through another dark hour, with consequences that we all know. The debate in our committee did not deal with the political aspects of the conflict. Our colleague, Mr Paul Gavan, focused on the humanitarian consequences of the conflict, in particular, the remaining prisoners of war, but also raised questions... 24/06/2021 | 16:45:18 Thank you, Mister Vice-President. This report is particularly important — essential, I would say — and its observation is clear and without appeal. We are certainly a little too inclined to believe that this has happened, that living well together has become the rule overall. Our society would testify on a daily basis to the values to which it claims — respect, tolerance, fraternity — and yet, sometimes, the awakening can be very brutal. This important and essential report, I repeat, is a... 24/06/2021 | 11:16:30 Thank you, Mister President. Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, The Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons took the initiative for this current affairs debate after its ad hoc sub-committee returned from a fact-finding visit to Greece last May, on the situation of refugees and migrants on the island of Lesbos following the destruction by fire of the Mória camp. Following this visit, the Committee felt it necessary to convey two strong messages. The first is the need to...