30/01/2025 | 18:19:25 Dear President, Dear colleagues, I would like to thank the rapporteur Ms Valentina GRIPPO for a very important report. As social media became the modern-day Agora and we become very reliable on information and we get most of it from social media, we can share our thoughts, we can engage in debate, and more than 2 000 years ago, Octavian launched a disinformation campaign to destroy his rival Mark Antony and eventually become the first Roman Empire, Caesar. Since those ancient times... 29/01/2025 | 17:37:05 Dear President, dear colleagues, First of all, I would like to thank Zanda as the chair of the Monitoring Committee and as a rapporteur, she did balance as much as possible. It was possible, crucial, important work. So probably, as it is in the report, the members of the Georgian delegation's credentials are to be ratified with suspended rights, of course, in the Council of Europe until they repeal the law of foreign agents, release political prisoners and announce an election. Do we believe... 29/01/2025 | 16:09:49 Thank you, Mister President, dear Prime Minister Frieden, First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to your country and to you for being a reliable partner to Ukraine for fruitful co-operation and support. My question would be what specific measure can Luxembourg take to expand its military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, who daily fights for its survival against Russia as an aggressor? And as it is Luxembourg's presidency, I would also like to use this opportunity to ask for... 28/01/2025 | 10:38:50 Dear Mister President, Dear fellow colleagues, I want to express my gratitude on the behalf of Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe to the rapporteur for addressing the need to uphold the rules-based international order. That lies in the heart of preserving peace, security and stability, particularly when its principles are under constant threat. The war in Ukraine underscores this urgency. Russia assaults the principles upon which the UN and Council of Europe were founded by... 04/10/2024 | 10:34:44 Mister Chairman, Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Andi-Lucian CRISTEA, for this important text. I fully support it. The legislative framework for the metaverse must respect democracy, human rights and the rule of law, because the metaverse is developing very fast. This is the case in many countries. I can say the same for my country. Today, Ukraine is a highly digitised country. For example, our Diia application offers a wide range of digital government services... 03/10/2024 | 18:45:18 Can I speak in the name of Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO also about the amendment? I agree to the oral sub-Amendment, but what I wanted to say is that in our Committee, today we voted for this Amendment, but with two additional sentences. "The Assembly will continue to close-monitor the grave, unprecedented situation". It's about food security and "the Assembly will prepare a separate report on the issue of food security," as it was actually not covered by this report, but somehow these two... 03/10/2024 | 17:37:32 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, I would like to thank the author of this report Simon MOUTQUIN, who is not with us today, but also our rapporteur Ms Aurora FLORIDIA, for addressing such a critical issue guaranteeing the human right to food. I would like to express my unwavering support for the idea of ensuring the right to food in national legislation. While we have laws about food safety and trade in other countries, we are missing fundamental guarantees that access to food and... 02/10/2024 | 17:35:30 Honourable colleagues, To begin with, I would like to express my gratitude to the rapporteur Ms Mariia MEZENTSEVA-FEDORENKO and all the team that worked on this urgent file, for drawing attention to one of the most painful and terrible topics for all Ukrainians. As of today, nearly 66 000 Ukrainian servicemen and civilians are missing or captured. Sixty-six thousand! And today, there is no Ukrainian who has not been influenced by this war… and you never know what is going to happen tomorrow... 01/10/2024 | 11:24:18 Dear Mister Chair, fellow colleagues, As a representative of Ukraine, I can assure you that fighting propaganda is one of the undeniable crucial tasks and challenges that we have today, because it is about protecting our citizens and the national security of our countries. As we speak, my country is facing a cruel, unprovoked Russian war, not only physical aggression but also an onslaught of Russian manipulation, which is dangerous not only for Ukraine, but the whole of Europe. Recent reports... 30/09/2024 | 16:42:12 Thank you, Mister President. Esteemed colleagues, In the Reykjavík Declaration there was a vision of the role of the Council of Europe's Development Bank (CEB) to set forth the Bank as they want to help us build a socially stronger Europe and I think the CEB copes with this goal set out by the Declaration very well. We are grateful to the CEB's flexible and tailored support for 43 member states in the recent years of Covid-19 and the full-fledged war of Russia against Ukraine. In 2023, 48...