26/01/2021 | 18:34:56 Thank you, Mr President. We examined this draft resolution on the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, which was mostly decided a year ago on the complementary joint procedure in regard to serious violations by member states of the statutory obligations. There are many good things about this resolution that reflect the current understanding but there are also areas that we are not satisfied with. I'd like to recall that in the beginning this procedure was seen as complementary to Article 8 of... 25/01/2021 | 17:57:58 Thank you very much, chairman. Well, as you know, concerning the particular report that we are discussing today. I think there are indeed a number of different parts that are brought up which are pertinent to the particular time in which we find ourselves right now. And a number of different unusual events have taken place throughout the council of member states and in my country as well. And of course monitoring takes place under these very unusual circumstances of today. When we look at the... 20/11/2020 | 17:37:58 Thank you President. I will try to keep my comments brief given that my colleague Mr Andrey EPISHIN already set out our views on the report and he did so very clearly. Turning now to the amendment we've tabled. I wanted to underscore that Mr Koloman BRENNER said he wanted to make the report objective and neutral. But it is rather careless when addressing my country and a number of other countries. I would now like to focus on paragraph 10 of the draft resolution where there is a list of... 20/11/2020 | 15:03:23 Thank you, Mister Chairman. I will try to keep my comments brief. I'm also very grateful to Mr SCHWABE for the great deal of work he put into introducing these exceptional rules of procedure for our work. However, I do harbour a number of doubts, which mean that I will have difficulty supporting these rules as set out in the report. First of all, the circumstances we find ourselves in are indeed exceptional, and this means we must adopt exceptional working methods. More or less, we figured... 31/01/2020 | 10:54:15 Thank you. Thank you very much President. Above all, we are to say that this is a very very serious issue and it is with great concern we look at the issues. Certain countries are under constant attack because of hacking and electronic interference and what is taking place in the political background as far as elections are concerned and preparation of elections. We know of numerous different programmes in Western countries that are represented here to use this particular influence in order... 29/01/2020 | 19:37:08 Thank you, President. First of all I have to say that I am struck by the degree of untruth and uncouthness in an international organisation which is supposed to be working for bringing all the people in Europe together. And what countries are these uncouth lies coming from in respect of my country? They are all, with one or two exceptions, marked by one criterion: it's countries who have killed their own citizens using weapons and an unchallengeable fact, I would say to our Georgian... 03/10/2019 | 16:13:19 Thank you very much, Madame President. As you know, I am listening to this particular discussion, and I am quite surprised because here we are in the house of democracy, but democracy requires the rule of law, friends. And I feel that there are very few here... no democracy can function without the rule of law. You have to respect the law and you, of course, have to meet the obligations of the law. First of all, respect for elections is absolutely necessary. And over these couple of days... 30/09/2019 | 15:57:35 Thank you Madame President. Madame State Secretary, I have to be quite honest. When I was listening to you, I decided to change the question I wanted to ask you. You talked about the return of Russia to this forum and you talked about what that involved and about the fact that on Thursday this week Russia might be asked to do even more. I can tell you that we can answer for what is happening in Russia today. We can be accountable for that. I can give you that assurance already. But what I... 26/06/2019 | 16:37:23 Thank you Chair. I would like to say that our discussion today is a rare one for the Council of Europe. We are not just talking about the credentials of my country. What we are talking about today is the future of this organisation. Here in the discussion we are having today, despite all the differences which exist between different delegations, within delegations. Although there is disagreement, our discussion today is about the Council of Europe. This is a space in which we all exist. It...