16/04/2024 | 15:06:03 Madam Secretary General, on behalf of my colleagues I want to thank you so much for the answers given to questions. Thank you. Dear colleagues, on this note let me remind you that the ballots for the election of three judges to the European Court of Human Rights is still open. Those who have not yet voted may still do so by going to the foyer in front of the Hemicycle. The vote closes at 6:00 p.m. The next item of business this afternoon is the debate on the report titled “Support for the... 16/04/2024 | 14:32:44 The sitting is open. Dear colleagues, This afternoon the Agenda calls for the election of three judges to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Ireland, Latvia, and Liechtenstein. The list of candidates and biographical notices are to be found in Documents 15938, 15949 and 15924. The opinion of the Committee is presented in Document 15959 Addendum 2. The voting will take place in the foyer in front of the Hemicycle by secret ballot. At 6:00 p.m. I shall announce the closing of the... 15/04/2024 | 16:31:15 Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, it is now my pleasure to welcome among us a former colleague of ours, Mr Mihail POPSOI, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Moldova. Dear Mihail, welcome back amongst us. As a you were a former Vice-President of our Assembly and a member for five years, you know this house of democracy very well. We are very pleased that one of us is here with us as a minister and the vice-chair of his government. We are very pleased... 15/04/2024 | 12:20:53 Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. We are already 5 minutes late. Madam Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General, Madam Secretary General of the Assembly, Ambassadors, Members of the Assembly, I wish to welcome you all warmly to this second part-session of our Assembly in 2024. It will be the last Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe plenary to be held in the premsises of the European Parliament before we move back for the June session to our home in the hemicycle in the... 26/01/2024 | 12:58:41 The next item on today's agenda is the continuation of the debate on the Progress Report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee (Document 15885, Addendum 6). At its meeting this morning the Bureau has proposed several references to committees. They are set out in Document 15885, Addendum 6. These references must be submitted for ratification by the Assembly in accordance with Rule 26.3. Are there any objections to these references? There are no objections. The references are approved. I now... 26/01/2024 | 12:53:02 Mister FASSINO, I have been following your speeches in the last years since 2019, since I have been a member of this honourable Assembly. I want to thank you because, whenever I was listening to what you were saying, I was gaining experience out of your wisdom. Thank you for your job. Thank you for what you have done in two years chairing the committee, and I want to thank you for organising and excellent meeting with President Mattarella in Rome. Dear colleagues, The Monitoring Committee... 25/01/2024 | 16:47:01 Thank you so much Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS, thank you dear Emanuelis. Dear colleagues, We have the pleasure of having among us today Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, leader of the Belarusian democratic opposition, who will make a statement contributing to the substance of the debate. Dear Madam TSIKHANOUSKAYA, We can only admire the resilience, courage and determination of your fellow compatriots and of yourself. People who have been forced into exile by the repression of the Aleksandr Lukashenko... 25/01/2024 | 16:32:57 Madam Secretary General, I want to thank you for being with us today. I want to thank you personally for your warmest wishes for my Presidency and overall for your wise experience you served with me while we had our first meeting the very first day that I was elected. All the best to you. Happy New Year. Thanks a lot. Dear colleagues, The next item on the agenda is the debate on the Report titled “A Democratic Future for Belarus” (Doc. 15892 and Add.) presented by Mr Kimmo KILJUNEN... 25/01/2024 | 15:34:36 Dear colleagues, We begin this afternoon’s sitting with a communication from the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Ms Marija PEJČINOVIĆ BURIĆ. This will be followed by questions to the Secretary General. We shall start, as I said, this afternoon's sitting with a communication from Ms Marija PEJČINOVIĆ BURIĆ. Madam Secretary General, I want to thank you for your presentation at the beginning of the year, of your vision, of the future of the Council of Europe and what is at stake. We... 25/01/2024 | 12:31:56 At this point, I want to warmly thank Ms Dominique HASLER for her presence and the answers that she gave this afternoon to my colleagues. Dear colleagues, The Assembly will hold its next public sitting later this afternoon at 3:30 p.m. with the agenda that was approved on Monday. I invite you to be in the hemicycle at your seats in good time for the communication of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Ms Marija PEJČINOVIĆ BURIĆ, at 3:30 p.m. For those colleagues who will be...