23/06/2022 | 17:39:13 Thank you so much, Kyrgyzstan is a really special place with very good people, very hospitable. The Kyrgyz Republic is one of the countries of the former Soviet Union, and especially in Central Asia, which tries to be the most transparent, the most open that it can be. I am saying this because the challenges and threats which Kyrgyzstan has had during these last 30 years of independence were not the same, as for example, the threats for other countries. Kyrgyzstan's history and level of... 23/06/2022 | 15:53:02 Thank you, Mister Chair. Is the rule of law possible in the countries, when the rulings of the courts are challenged? Is human rights protection possible without the respect towards the rule of law? Does the rule of law may exist without democracy? These components of the legal and democratic engineering are indivisible and inseparable. The judiciary plays a crucial role in keeping this trinity. The process of democratic backsliding is not an instant one. It is a very slow process and you... 23/06/2022 | 10:19:33 Thank you Mister Chair. Dear Colleagues, Let me first of all congratulate the rapporteurs for an excellent report. In 1965, one year after independence, Malta became the 18th member of the Council of Europe, contributing to the achievements of our organisation. Recently, the Republic of Malta appears in the focus of the Parliamentary Assembly predominantly in the context of the assassination of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, an assassination where there are still many... 21/06/2022 | 17:46:37 No, it was mentioned that I should sit here. In any case, for many years, we deemed that we finally enjoyed peaceful and tranquil times in Europe. We did believe that due to the Second World War's tragic experience at least our generation will be secured from any armed conflict, global catastrophes and disasters. Today, everybody is alarmed. War has returned to Europe. Nevertheless, ladies and gentlemen, peace was just an illusion. Even during the times that seemed peaceful and safe, war was... 28/04/2022 | 17:45:40 Thank you, Mr Chair. The amendment actually proposed by the Committee is to replace paragraph 8.6 with the paragraph and sub-paragraphs in order to highlight the importance of an independent and impartial judiciary for the rule of law. At the same time, we actually agree with the proposed idea of the subparagraph, but we cannot agree with the proposed wording in the draft resolution concerning the limitation of the executive or to the legislator to appoint judges since the institutional... 28/04/2022 | 15:39:13 Thank you, Mr Chair. Dear colleagues, Today I am presenting the Opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights on a report by the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy on safeguarding and promoting genuine democracy in Europe, prepared by Ms Marie-Christine DALLOZ. I fully share the views expressed in her report and broadly support the draft resolution. Member states will find in the report and resolution a checklist of democratic values and principles that they must... 28/04/2022 | 10:28:41 Honourable Mister Minister, The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is the unique institution which we are privileged to live under as a single human rights environment. In recent years, we are facing the reluctance and failure of some member States to go in line with its rulings. Essential judgments are not executed, interim measures and other rulings of the Court are not implemented, even after we have communicated with the Committee of Ministers, and even then, infringement procedures... 27/04/2022 | 18:43:13 Dear colleagues, Every lawyer is familiar with the Roman law maxima ex injuria jus non oritur, which implies that illegal acts do not create law. The report under consideration may be called the same way. We are discussing here new implications of an ancient legal principle which is still an essential pillar guaranteeing the rule of law and democracy. Here, I absolutely agree with the rapporteur, that the illegal assets should be returned to their real owners. Hence, a state shouldn't be the... 26/04/2022 | 19:29:49 Thank you, Mister Chair. I hope Mr Kamal JAFAROV is still here and Mr Samad SEYIDOV, who will follow me and would, speaking about genuine democracy, listen to me very carefully. When I was a student, I did some research in history. I remember the small historical documents on the speech of one of the architects of the Armenian genocide with the German ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, who said precisely, –and this is maybe the first phrase I have ever heard in French– "La question arménienne... 25/04/2022 | 17:27:22 Dear Chair, Dear Colleagues. Yesterday, on 24 April, Armenians all over the world were commemorating the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, organised and perpetrated by the Ottoman authorities in such a cruel and inhumane manner that the international community was obliged to invent a new term for the qualification of such international outrages "crimes against humanity". Despite the fact that the consequences of the Armenian Genocide are still echoing within the Armenian...