26/01/2023 | 10:13:44 Thank you, Mister President. Mariya was 15 years old. She was the president of her school's student council. She was interested in music. She liked to grow flowers. It is said that her dance performances enchanted with their beauty and grace. Mariya died on 14 January in Dnipro, along with many other civilians, snatched from life, snatched from her family by a missile that ripped through her building. We have all seen these unbearable images. Mariya should not have died. She should have been... 24/01/2023 | 17:02:36 Thank you very much, Mr. President. My congratulations to our colleague Mrs. Fiona O'LOUGHLIN for this excellent report. We know that there has been a lot of work and a lot of coordination and consultation behind it and this really gives an impetus from our Assembly for this summit, which is really a strong anchor for the beginning of the discussions that will take place in Reykjavik. I am also pleased, as others have mentioned, that this summit is being held. Madam Secretary General, Mr... 23/01/2023 | 17:11:09 Thank you, Madam President. Dear Colleagues, This report is based on a motion for a resolution tabled back in 2019. It deals with a very complex issue indeed, which raises serious security and humanitarian concerns for European states whose nationals travelled to Syria and to Iraq to join Daesh. We have seen that some of these states have repatriated nationals with their families from camps in the north-east of Syria. Other states are more reluctant to do so. The European Court of Human... 14/10/2022 | 12:14:06 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, The motion for a resolution recalled that some member states of the Council of Europe have restricted the freedoms of people who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19, especially by introducing the so-called covid passes. This resolution highlighted the possible discrimination between people vaccinated with different vaccines approved by the World Health Organization. The issue of discrimination between those who have been vaccinated and those... 13/10/2022 | 16:03:47 Thank you, Mister President. I would like to say to all those who forbid Gay Pride or LGBT Pride, to all those who say "But that's not serious, let's deal with serious things", I would like to say to them: don't be afraid. Don't be afraid! Homosexual or LGBT people are people like you, like your grandson, who simply want to live their love normally, without having to hide. That's exactly what Pride is. That's all it is. Sometimes people ask me what Pride is for, even in today's world. It's... 13/10/2022 | 10:47:34 Thank you, Mister President. I had the honor of leading the 10-member delegation of this Assembly which, as has just been mentioned, went to Kyiv, Irpin, and Bucha at the end of June on behalf of the Assembly. I must say that we were all very shocked by what we saw, which demonstrates that war crimes have been committed and are still being committed in your country. The Assembly has been committed to this international tribunal against the crime of aggression from the very beginning, and the... 12/10/2022 | 17:24:20 Thank you very much, Mister Chairman. The ALDE Group has a rather different opinion from what has just been expressed. On the contrary, it finds this report to be of high quality and would like to thank the rapporteurs for the quality of the work and the information given. No, on the contrary, there is no question of... [he is interrupted] I am the one who has the floor now, I thank you: that is democracy, we speak one after the other, and we listen to each other. There are no double... 12/10/2022 | 16:53:43 Thank you, Mr Prime Minister, We all want to have the best possible cooperation between the countries of the Council of Europe and I must say that as Chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee, I am a little sad that you have questioned the quality of the work that was done at the time by Mr Dick Marty, who is one of the most renowned rapporteurs of this institution and who created the international reputation of the Council of Europe. So, do you think that this way of doing things is the best... 11/10/2022 | 20:22:07 Thank you, Madam President. Dear Colleagues, This report is the result of a motion for a resolution that was tabled in 2018. It was dealt with by no less than three rapporteurs, Ms Olena SOTNYK from Ukraine, Ms Irina RUKAVISHNIKOVA from Russia and Mr Ziya ALTUNYALDIZ from Türkiye. A fact-finding visit to the European institutions in Brussels took place in February this year. The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights adopted the report unanimously in June this year, and we have just... 23/06/2022 | 16:58:39 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, We are right, in this House, to debate this important issue because we are facing one of the greatest risks of international crisis that stems from two other crises, finally: The Ukrainian crisis, the Russian aggression of Ukraine, and, on the other hand, also climate change. The situation in which we find ourselves, on the one hand, is related to the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the blockades that result from it, but also to the bad...