27/01/2026 | 19:17:55 Colleagues, We resume our session. I have here a hammer and a bell to keep everything in order. But I'm sure everyone will behave! The next item of business this afternoon is the debate – well, of the evening – is the debate on the report titled: The functioning of democratic institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Document 16310, presented by Mr Zsolt NÉMETH and Mr Pablo HISPÁN on behalf of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy. In order to finish by 8 p.m. sharp, I will interrupt... 02/10/2025 | 10:46:57 Thank you dear President. Dear colleagues, I would first of all like to thank all political group leaders who initiated this brilliant file. And I don't know any other institution who can produce such resolutions just in 48 hours. Thank you, Mr Iulian BULAI, for chairing this process. And we thank the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy today for accepting all the amendments. Colleagues, we still have time and we still have a hope that our co-operation can bring us to real, lasting... 01/10/2025 | 19:08:09 President, Dear colleagues, This is a very tough file and I would like to share on behalf of the Ukrainian delegation appreciation to Mr Eerik-Niiles KROSS, who took the lead on it. Today, we're talking about the possible platform of the possible Russian democratic forces. I think this text is very clear, as we were clear back in February 2022 when we were expelling Russia as a state, stating "nothing about Ukraine, without Ukraine". We definitely want to see the real Russian democratic... 01/10/2025 | 17:43:14 Dear President, Dear colleagues, I want to salute us all. This is a historical document and we've been through this in a very critical time, in a very short period of time. No other international armed conflict across the world has faced such a speedy legal answer to the aggression. In our case, it is the Russian Federation who was expelled from this Parliamentary Assembly and which has to pay for all the losses, material and non-material, which Ukrainians are facing today. I would like to... 09/04/2025 | 18:29:21 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, There is a very interesting saying which might be a little bit contradictory for us, but I'll explain. It goes like this: "The true soldier is fighting not because he hates something in front of him, but because he loves a lot what is behind him. Today, thousands and thousands of brave Ukrainian women and men do really fight for everything they love which is behind them. Behind this Assembly, there are so many millions of Ukrainians who are not... 08/04/2025 | 16:17:43 Hello, colleagues. Thank you for this opportunity. I also would like to thank Valentina MARTÍNEZ, our Spanish colleague, for initiating this, and Ms Zanda KALNIŅA-LUKAŠEVICA for getting together all the important amendments and for your presence, colleagues, in very high numbers. I want to start with the draft recommendation. Indeed, the foreign interference today seeks to undermine electoral processes in your home countries. Russia's specific interference was trying to elect, on your behalf... 30/01/2025 | 17:23:16 "Dear Ms Sena Nur ÇELİK KANAT, thank you for this important report" [spoken in Ukrainian and Turkish too]. You know, colleagues, we were just laughing that there was one man speaking. This is not funny. But even more not funny is that we're still debating and discussing and there's still a need for such resolutions to enhance, enlarge and higher up the understanding of how underrepresented women are still in the global economic market. Even though, as the rapporteur has mentioned, us women... 29/01/2025 | 11:06:21 "Thank you, Madam President" [spoken in French] Thank you very much, dear colleagues, I want to start with a very unknown and interesting history of 400 young students from Ukraine who on this day, 107 years ago in 1918, prevented the possible annexation of the current capital of Ukraine, Kyiv. They fought to death against a 4 000 group of Bolsheviks and defeated them and protected the current modern territory of Ukraine. Commemorating them today, we understand how important it is in the... 03/10/2024 | 17:07:14 I think I'll extend the words of appreciation to the Committee and I will explain the main points of the resolution and I will initiate the call to the Bureau and what we have decided in the Committee after the discussions in the political groups. Dear President, dear colleagues, I would like to say a few words about the Resolution that we have revised in Paris and was adopted a few weeks ago by a large majority, the text itself. And the report and the draft resolution were the outcome of the... 03/10/2024 | 17:02:05 Thank you, dear President, colleagues, It is very sad to say, sometimes people are discriminated for the fact that they love some particular person, and the others would judge whether they are allowed or not to love this particular person. But that goes way deeper in the societal relations than that. I want to thank on behalf of our Committee Ms Béatrice FRESKO-ROLFO for her work, for the conducted hearings, for the collected information. And the fact that we didn't have any Amendments and...