25/01/2024 | 16:18:54 Thank you, Mister Chair. Honourable Madam Secretary General, Could you please tell us more about the concrete instruments and mechanisms of the Council of Europe that will ensure the protection of the commercial rights of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh? I am just continuing the general line of questions raised. You said that it was very important that finally the Human Rights Commissioner will get to Nagorno-Karabakh, not you but the Human Rights Commissioner will get Nagorno-Karabakh, and... 24/01/2024 | 18:44:28 Thank you, Madam Chair. Dear colleagues, Let me first of all congratulate Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU for the brilliant report reflecting all the topical issues of combating torture and addressing the main strategic challenges of our organisation in that respect. Absolute, imperative, unacceptable, prohibited, and immoral: these are the adjectives which may be used to describe torture as a phenomenon prohibited under general international law for a long time. But torture is not just prohibited... 12/10/2023 | 15:22:21 Thank you, Mister Chair. Mister REYNDERS, last week in this very hemicycle the European Parliament adopted the Resolution condemning Azerbaijan's military attack against Nagorno-Karabakh and calling for the EU and its member states to adopt targeted sanctions against Azerbaijan. The European Parliament also called for the comprehensive review of the European relations with Azerbaijan. Partnership with a country like Azerbaijan is incompatible with the values and objectives of the European... 11/10/2023 | 17:17:08 Thank you Madam Chair, I would like first of all to congratulate Mr Pieter OMTZIGT for this brilliant report, a very timely and topical one. Nobody knows wherever we have Pegasus here or not, and nobody of you can be sure that somebody's following you, surveilling you. I remember when we discussed this issue with the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and Mr Pieter OMTZIGT said that somehow Big Brother is following us and our colleague Mr Serhii KALCHENKO said no, it's not correct... 11/10/2023 | 15:01:14 Mister Minister, What is the Committee of Ministers is going to undertake to give an end to the deliberate non-execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and of non-implementation of the interim measures of the European Court of Human Rights by member states? And the second question: For more than a year, Azerbaijan has been openly rejecting any authorised visit of Parliamentary Assembly rapporteurs and officials to Nagorno Karabakh. Even after the unprecedented exodus... 10/10/2023 | 19:27:49 Thank you very much. Dear colleagues, [in French]. It is really very complicated to be one of the biggest democracies in Europe, because everybody looks at you and everybody thinks that it is a pattern for further actions. For sure, ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, democracy is not a static phenomenon. It is a developing one. It is developing every day and from this perspective, such kinds of reviews are very important. I would like to say that from the very beginning, the French... 10/10/2023 | 18:05:31 Thank you. From time to time I would like to just rise and keep silent here, say nothing, because very often I have the feeling that everybody speaks, but nobody listens. It's very complicated not to agree with the rapporteur about the report, about his speech. Yes, for sure: far-right ideology should be condemned. For sure we should fight against intolerance, racism, xenophobia, anti-Islamic movements, and so on. But unfortunately hypocrisy rises to the level there; it's easy to speak about... 09/10/2023 | 16:17:20 Thank you, Mr Chairman. Thank you for your welcoming speech. Thank you for using the word "exodus" when you were addressing the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. I remember it was January of this year that me and Mr EFSTATHIOU from Cyprus used the same word. We urge everybody that we need rapid action, otherwise, it would be an exodus. It would be the total extermination of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh. I remember when the Lachin Corridor was illegally blocked at the end of 2022... 23/06/2023 | 10:29:15 Thank you, Mister Chair. Thank you, dear rapporteur. The report we are discussing is very topical, topical because despite the fact that transnational repression is a famous phenomenon from a political perspective but from a legal perspective, from the perspective of any first-century legal thinking, it should be still described. We really need an explanation of what we are speaking about. That is why I agree with those writers who already said that we need a precise definition of what we are... 21/06/2023 | 15:33:07 Honourable Madam President, It is a new building, it is a temporary building. That is why we are not very experienced in using this equipment. Thank you very much for your reference to the rule of law and the freedom of expression in the digital era. It is very easy to find any kind of information. I would like to ask you the following issue, how we should react in the cases of manipulation of information on Facebook and social media. If we are comparing the situation we have now with the...