23/01/2024 | 17:00:25 Thank you, Madam President. On behalf of the Group of the United European Left I want to express our profound concern at much of the content of this report. We of course condemn the actions of Hamas and we insist on the release of all hostages on all sides, but the resolution as currently framed simply does not reflect the horrors of what is happening in occupied Palestine. According to the United Nations, in the first 100 days, Israel's military offensive has resulted in the loss of over 23... 13/10/2023 | 10:23:31 Thank you, Madam President. I want to congratulate Mr Pieter OMTZIGT, who I think has a habit of writing very good reports for this Assembly. As the report points out, the motion for a resolution originated in January 2022, just before the invasion of Ukraine took place. The legitimacy and legality of the amendments of the Russian constitution enacted in July 2020 must be challenged. The Venice Commission has clearly criticised the amendments, the procedure, their content and the speed at... 12/10/2023 | 17:45:47 On behalf of the United European Left I want to congratulate the rapporteur and call for full support for this Report. On the 16 June last I spoke in this chamber when reporting on ensuring safe and free access to the Lachin corridor and I said at that time that I had to come to the conclusion that the aim of the Azerbaijan regime was to drive the people of Nagorno-Karabakh out of the region. And it gives me no pleasure to say that subsequent events have proven that to be the case. This is a... 22/06/2023 | 18:35:24 Thank you very much, Mister President. I regret I have to begin with an urgent update that I have received just in the last 20 minutes from the EU Monitoring Commission at the Lachin Corridor and they confirmed that this afternoon Azerbaijan have installed concrete blocks, obstacles of approximately knee height, across both lines of the road so it is not possible to pass on the road by vehicle. They installed them behind the permanent Azerbaijan checkpoint, the green tent. On a day when we... 22/06/2023 | 17:58:22 Thank you very much, Mister President. So thank you, colleagues. Firstly, I want to begin by saying what this report is not about. It is not about the wider political situation between Armenia and Azerbaijan. I have been given a very specific mandate to talk about the Lachin Corridor and that is what I focused on in this report. I also need to briefly talk about terminology, because a number of amendments seek to remove the term Nagorno-Karabakh. I oppose these amendments because the term... 21/06/2023 | 19:24:05 Thank you, Madam Chairperson. On behalf of the Group of the Unified European Left, I want to welcome this report. It is a very timely report. I was very struck by the last speaker talking about criminal activity in the Mediterranean and the Aegean. The criminal activity was not to rescue those 750 human beings who are allowed to drown. That was the criminal activity. I am extremely concerned in relation to events in Britain. Not just because of its appalling consequences for human beings, but... 21/06/2023 | 18:50:40 Thank you, madam Chairperson. Firstly, I just want to state that the horrific drownings of at least 700 people, 700 human beings, last week is a matter of absolute shame for all of our countries. We need safe, legal routes to Europe, we need much greater solidarity with frontline states, and we need state-led search and rescue missions to stop the scandal of mass drownings of human beings. Dear colleagues, on 15 March and on 11 May, the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons... 20/06/2023 | 17:07:06 Thank you, Madam President, dear colleagues, I want to thank Mr Paul GALLES for his excellent report and Ms Tatiana TERMACIC for her tremendous contribution to this endeavour. The presence of Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA attest of the importance and timeliness of our debate today. I'd like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to her for all her work and initiatives she has taken to take care of her compatriots. On 11 May, the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons... 27/04/2023 | 18:44:44 Indeed, Mister Chairperson. On behalf of the Group of the Unified European Left, I want to warmly congratulate the rapporteur for this very timely report. As Mr Geraint DAVIES points out, our shared values, human rights, democracy in the rule of law, are increasingly relevant in the context of global trade, and especially, in the context of the climate crisis and a need for sustainable development. There is a fundamental problem in the capitalist world today. The needs of business and... 27/04/2023 | 17:49:59 Thank you, Mister Chairperson. On behalf of the Group of the Unified European Left I want to contribute to this debate. The Republic of Moldova is facing many challenges right now, and the right of the Moldovan people to independence, to make their own democratic decisions, and choose their own direction and position in the world must be respected by all countries, especially its nearest neighbours. Sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania, Moldova's territory was in turns part of the Russian...