26/01/2022 | 19:22:29 The sub-amendment is in line with the amendment: it refers to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the Chemical Weapons Convention. While a deadline must be set and we had not set a deadline, it is true. This as soon as possible is both a sense of urgency. At the same time, there are deadlines that are set in this Chemical Weapons Convention. We do not have complete control over them, since we are not a competent organisation. We believe that setting a deadline of one... 26/01/2022 | 19:09:35 Thank you Madam President. First of all, a big thank you to all the colleagues, because with the exception of Mr Aleksandr BASHKIN, I heard very strong support, a recognition of the work, something that is heartwarming because it has been a lot of effort. I am thinking in particular of the discussions we had with Mr David MILNER and Mr Günter SCHIRMER for months. I am thinking of the meetings we had with the doctors, who agreed to talk, who agreed to give information, who agreed to give... 26/01/2022 | 17:54:53 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, I have the honour to present to you the draft report on the attempted poisoning of Mr Alexei Navalny. Mr Navalny is a prominent opposition politician and anti-corruption activist. He has been in prison for more than a year because he failed to appear for his judicial review in Moscow – a review resulting from a conviction deemed unfounded in law by the Strasbourg Court. And for good reason: he was convalescing in Germany following an attempted... 26/01/2022 | 17:41:22 Thank you, Mr President. In fact, it is not just technical. There are questions of political expediency in our debate, and the fact that we say that everything is technical means that, at the end of the day, we have a text that is soft and does not say much. What is going on? For the past year, the number one issue for the world public opinion concerning human rights in Russia is, obviously, the arrest, imprisonment and poisoning of Mr Alexei Navalny. This is a major phenomenon, which has put... 26/01/2022 | 15:58:52 Thank you, Dear President. There is now a tradition in this Assembly that every time we renew our delegations, we are systematically confronted with a challenge to the credentials of the Russian delegation. It is a sad and regrettable tradition, but I do not condemn it, because those who bear responsibility for this challenge are not our colleagues who propose it: it is the Russian authorities themselves. The commitments made in 2019 - as was said just now - by Russia on the occasion of the... 24/01/2022 | 16:09:52 Thank you Madam President. First of all, I would like to congratulate Mr Tiny Kox on his success in this competition. I am happy that this competition took place. We are a democratic body. Naturally, we, as the ALDE Group, are totally bound by this group agreement: I am therefore pleased and I congratulate Mr Tiny Kox on this election. I would also like to congratulate Mrs Mariia MEZENTSEVA who scored very well with one third of the votes, which really shows that this corresponded to a real... 30/09/2021 | 12:46:45 Thank you, Madam President. I am a little disappointed, I have to say, by this debate which is confined to casting responsibility on other parties and not looking at what one´s own responsibility is, and what one should still do. I think that we will not get out of this. There is an interest to make progress. We all know about how destabilised the Balkans have been as we experienced wars not so long ago. If you look at the enlargement negotiations in the Balkans and what the outcome of the... 30/09/2021 | 11:29:03 Thank you, Mister President. Of course, happy birthday, Mr DIMITROV. First of all, I am very pleased to give the ALDE Group's full support to the efforts made by Northern Macedonia, particularly through the Prespa agreement that we celebrated together a few weeks ago and the Ohrid Agreement before that, which have indeed made it possible to avoid a war in the Balkans – which has claimed the lives of many other countries. I would like to ask you a small question about the Europe that you are... 29/09/2021 | 16:28:51 Thank you, Mr President. It is a source of pride for us, the ALDE Group, to be with you today because it has taken almost two years of effort to build up this important work. The messages that have been sent today by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, by you, Mr President, by the Pope, by the Court, by the ministers and by the Secretary General show however that there comes a time when action must be taken. This is the Council of Europe. We are not at the OECD, we are not in our... 28/09/2021 | 18:42:42 Thank you, Mister President. We therefore have a rather special situation here, which is that of the committees responsible for observing elections. We think that we need to have a formulation that is effectively different insofar as these are committees that require physical availability at a given moment in time, that there are very often situations in which we have difficulty in finding candidates and that, if we refer to past experience, we realise that the distribution of men and women...