27/01/2022 | 12:44:43 Thank you very much, Mister President. Thank you very much for Mr Ahmet YILDIZ for that kind gesture. Indeed, this particular discussion involves very, very serious issues. Three serious issues around the situation on our continent as far as security is concerned today. We all confront a very dire situation. There is no question about that. We have to be very honest in our approach and in our assessment about what is going on and why what is going on is happening. Of course, in three minutes... 26/01/2022 | 16:23:13 Thank you. Thank you, Mister President. I must say that the attempt by our opponent to deprive the delegation of its credentials has become a PACE tradition, but it is not a tradition that puts this organisation in a positive light. On the contrary, this is damaging for all of us, and it really undermines the competence of the Parliamentary Assembly in the European space and the European area. The authors and those who want to challenge our credentials are not really interested in this... 25/01/2022 | 17:40:28 Thank you, Chair. As this is the first time that I am taking the floor, I would like to congratulate you on your election and wish you every success in this work which is of interest to all of us. President, given what you have just said about continuation and completion in the near future regarding the election of Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly, I would like to say that my delegation and I myself are experiencing constant difficulties in voting for two hours now. Our experts... 30/09/2021 | 09:52:51 Thank you Madam President. First and foremost, I'd like to say that the issue of the situation in Afghanistan needs a much more thorough and serious discussion than this sort of debate, because we're talking about serious events which threaten peace and stability in the world, and indeed many of the states and organisations. I don't want to talk about some of the concerns about the current situation in Afghanistan, because many colleagues have already referred to those points, and I agree... 24/06/2021 | 18:20:16 President, First of all, I should like to say that the subject matter of the report is extremely important. One that my country is keenly interested in, seeing as we are fighting to resist attempts at foreign interference in the political workings of our country particularly when it comes to the foreign funding of electoral campaigns. What is more, our legislation is fairly advanced in this regard, and it is something that we continue to upgrade. Many of the proposals that are made in the... 24/06/2021 | 11:01:14 We simply wanted to add that this particular packet of rejection... The fact that there were particularly ten who were against this particular rejection of this amendment, but because of the situation none of us are present. It's an unusual situation. Now with regard to No. 8. Quite obviously it involves fighting against any sort of discrimination against the diaspora population. I do feel that this particular issue, quite obviously, for our organisation is extremely important. We do feel... 23/06/2021 | 10:43:29 Thank you. Mister President, distinguished colleagues, I am listening to today's discussion and I cannot help but feel that the very phrasing of the question that is a threat to Europe, a threat posed by Belarus to Europe and the tone that was set by the initiator have drawn our organisation into a sort of post-truth era because all of the arguments I have heard up until now accusing the regime of all types of different crimes, seem to be based on either distortion of the facts, or on a... 21/06/2021 | 11:57:24 Thank you very much, Mr Chair. You know I've had to take the floor as a point of order because during the voting process we were here remotely and we simply had a problem with the connection. I would like to strongly disagree with the inclusion of the current affairs debate on Belarus, particularly under Covid-19 conditions. There is no threat posed by Belarus to other European countries. This is an artificially contrived phrasing. It was simply an issue of external interference with domestic... 22/04/2021 | 10:52:20 You know, while listening to this discussion I ask myself what are we really talking about? We're talking about legal obligations, about the rule of law, about the governments fulfilling their commitments, about the bodies of the Council of Europe executing their duties and functions in accordance with texts that have been accepted by all. Or do we rather find ourselves in a situation where, as we just saw from the previous speaker, this has just become an anti-Russian forum? When I hear... 28/01/2021 | 09:47:24 Thank you, President. Mister President, in one of your first statements at this session you stressed the fact that the values of this organisation must be above politics. In this resolution that we're discussing today, this is really evidence of how principles can be hostage to political manipulation. Principals are principles when they are based on honesty and when they are based on facts, and on a factual analysis. Principles really are principles when they are universally applied to all...