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Ms Mariia MEZENTSEVA-FEDORENKO

Speeches since 2019

27/04/2022 | 10:38:04 Dear President,  As always, I have an unprepared speech. You know when I was with my colleagues in Kharkiv and rocket cassette missiles just before coming to see here you, dear colleagues, my only thought was "Oh God, please not now, we have to deliver this speech, we have to be as a delegation here and to vote on this resolution." And that is really random to have these thoughts at the moment when you are under rockets, but these thoughts are really something that touches upon every family... 15/03/2022 | 09:51:03 Thank you, dear President. Dear colleagues, today I will be speaking not as a politician, but as a human being, representing the whole nation of Ukraine, not just the Ukrainian Parliament, which has been under attack. Finally, after eight years and 20 days of war, we send a very firm message to soon-to-be a former member State of this highly respected Organisation, which is focusing on human rights, to the Russian Federation. There is no place for such a brutal state to be here among us. Dear... 14/03/2022 | 17:57:59 Thank you, dear president. Madam Secretary General, as I have become an IDP myself and witnessing how my colleague counterparts, their families, and many more in Ukraine are becoming refugees, I don't have a question I have a kind request to you. Recently, within these couple of weeks of war, several generous volunteers have united their efforts in the IT sector and they created the platform which is called Stand Up Ukraine. It was presented to your team earlier today. It unites donors... 26/01/2022 | 17:11:21 Mr President, The logic is very clear here. I will not bother you colleagues with reciting paragraph 11. However, in the very end of it there are very very important words such as follows: "Russian Federation fully participates in its bodies", "cooperates mechanisms and activities". I think with the name and resolutions in previous paragraphs, and breaching them and not fulfilling them for so many years, we have a very accurate understanding that this is not very true. Therefore, with this... 26/01/2022 | 16:41:58 Thank you very much dear Chair. You know colleagues that I have redrafted recently my intervention. It will be very peaceful and calm, but with numerous facts. I am a bilingual Ukrainian and Russian speaking person from the East of Ukraine. A Russian colleague just said that they're very tired for three years that we're challenging their credentials. Well, we are very tired as Ukrainians, Georgians, the people of Moldova, of the invasion of Russia. We are very tired and sad, and crying with... 24/01/2022 | 19:29:47 Thank you, Madam President, thank you very much. I would like to thank the rapporteur for the very important and timely report, which outlines, I would say, very revolutionary suggestions to a very famous Dublin document into the very famous standard framework of asylum for the new waves of refugees we are facing currently at the sub-continent of Europe and we might face in the future. We are talking, of course, beyond the European borders. Many of my colleagues referred to the case of... 24/01/2022 | 17:47:39 Dear Chair, I'm lucky enough to speak on this very important topic which unites us all with no doubt of having a debate on it. I highly salute the work of the rapporteurs which are not only touching upon basic human rights but also on a potential lowering down of the voting age. We are facing now the youth generation, which is the Generation Z. At this very Plenary, in this very House, already back in 2021 at the Annual Forum on Democracy which has been organised for so many years here, we... 30/09/2021 | 09:27:52 Thank you, dear colleagues, dear President. We do know that the rapid collapse of Afghanistan government forces and the Taliban seizure of power have shocked the whole of Europe, the whole continent, and led to intense debate about the implications for our European policy. Europe definitely cannot shield itself from the trouble spots around it because this is our neighbourhood, and if we no longer commit to stabilising our neighbourhood policy, the instability will come to our homes. The... 29/09/2021 | 18:05:46 Thank you, dear President, Colleagues, today, we discussed a very important topic, but I don't see as many colleagues in the Hall, unfortunately, maybe more of them are online. You know every morning when I wake up I think to myself, okay we proceed with many many laws within this honourable Hall, and today we have proven the largest majority have a concern for environmental issues. But what do we do ourselves every day to prevent the terrible disasters which our planet will face by 2050... 27/09/2021 | 16:22:05 I'll try number two. Dear President, dear colleagues, I must raise the objection to document 15375 Addendum 2 concerning the Ukranian list of elections of judges to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). We have to stress that the list is composed of three highly qualified candidates fully meeting the conditions laid by Article 21 paragraph 1 of the Convention as well as the requirements developed by the Assembly. It offers to the Assembly a genuine choice and is based on a fair and...