28/01/2022 | 12:36:30 Thank you, Mr Chair. One year after the aggressive war against the Nagorno-Karabakh launched by Azerbaijan, by Turkey and with the engagement of an unprecedented number of mercenaries we are still trying to resolve the conflict by exclusively peaceful means, with the clear understanding that peaceful solutions are alternatives and it is a general obligation of all the parties under the UN Charter and it is also the obligation for Armenia and Azerbaijan as an imperative condition for the... 28/01/2022 | 10:22:54 Thank you Mr Chair. Dear colleagues, On behalf of my political group I'd also like to congratulate Mr Michael Aastrup JENSEN for his excellent work and for his excellent report, as well as to welcome all the members of the Monitoring Committee and to appreciate their work. Democracy is not a static substance. It's a dynamic phenomenon which has no state of rest, which is either developing or backsliding. The Council of Europe and our Assembly are the watchdogs of democracy, monitoring it in... 27/01/2022 | 12:35:51 Thank you, Mister Chair. I would like to congratulate you on this important election. I would like to wish you all success. My great colleague reminded me that we are in the days of commemorating the victims of the Holocaust. Never again, never again, never again. How many times do we repeat these words? My ancestors survived the Armenian Genocide. Everybody said, "Never again". My grandparents experienced the Holocaust, living together with Jews during the Nazi occupation. We said, "Never... 27/01/2022 | 11:23:02 Thank you Mr Chair. Honourable colleagues, enforced disappearance is one of the most alarming global challenges which is directly interconnected to the issue of human rights protection. The very existence of the phenomenon of enforced disappearance undermines the pillars of democracy, degrading the rule of law, and poses a constant threat to international peace and security. The existence of enforced disappearance bears witness to the deepest inner systemic problem in respective states where... 27/09/2021 | 19:16:26 Thank you, Mr Chair. First of all, I would like to express words of gratitude to Mr Tiny KOX for a very important report. I would like just to start my speech with a very interesting fac. When the UN International Law Commission started to codify diplomatic immunities, there was huge opposition because diplomats thought that it would make diplomatic law non-flexible. In general we came in this direction. We now have diplomatic law, especially the parts of international immunities and... 27/09/2021 | 18:24:07 I'm sorry Madam Chair to say this, but I would like to remind you and everybody here that we are still in a hybrid format. The hybrid format has its specifics, firstly. Secondly, when we are speaking about oral sub-Amendments, we need to at least have it somehow listed before voting. Third, how is it possible to communicate with people who are in a hybrid format, who are trying to understand what is going on? Plus, how is it possible to understand where is the consensus. Then, the Chair of... 22/04/2021 | 09:58:02 Thank you, Mr Chair. I would like asked to ask some short questions to the Minister. Firstly, you already addressed the issue of the fulfilment of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights. You said that you will have zero tolerance to our non-implementation of judgment. I would just like to say you know perfectly what the situation is with the Armenian prisoners of war. The European Court already informed you about the fact that several interim measures indicated that Azerbaijan has... 20/04/2021 | 12:05:43 Honourable Mr President, Honourable colleagues, Dear ladies and gentlemen, First of all, let me congratulate Mr Tiny KOX for this excellent report. It is quite important to have the document which actually shaped the strategic priorities for our organisation for upcoming years. It is quite important that we have in this document, also, the current challenges this organisation faces and it is quite important when several emerging rights are mentioned as priorities for our organisation. But we... 28/01/2021 | 11:46:52 Thank you Mr Chair. Let me first of all thank the rapporteur for the preparation of a brilliant report which is quite topical, especially in the era of combating coronavirus and in the millennium of the development of new sophisticated technologies. Ladies and gentlemen, yesterday we commemorated the victims of the Holocaust. Unfortunately we didn't address the issue properly here. The current problems we face, the pandemic, high-tech and the other one somehow became the mainstream of... 27/01/2021 | 18:54:25 Thank you, Mister Chair. I would like to express words of gratitude to the rapporteur for an excellent report. Ladies and Gentlemen, NGO's are part of our life. The pandemic made them even more important in our daily life because they were very active in different aspects of combating coronavirus. For sure everybody understood from a legal perspective that NGO's are not free to do everything. They may be subject to certain limitations. It's quite normal while it's necessary for democratic...