27/09/2021 | 19:38:30 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Today, exactly 1 year ago, on 27th September war between Armenian and Azerbaijan started. This war was a final accord of the 3 decades long occupation by Armenia of part of Azerbaijan. From today on we mark this day in Azerbaijan as Memorial day. Dear Mr Gavan, I had a chance to accompany you to Aghdam, a city, once densely populated, which has been looted to the ground by the Armenian occupying forces. Military fortifications and remnants of... 27/09/2021 | 19:37:07 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Dear colleagues, Exactly 1 year ago on 27th September, second Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan broke out. But it was just, hopefully, a final accord in the long lasting conflict which took many thousands of lives. This bloody conflict started 3 decades ago with occupation of a chunk of Azerbaijani territories and ethnic cleansing of all ethnic Azerbaijanis living there. The cities and villages were destroyed, people killed or... 22/06/2021 | 12:12:32 Dear colleagues, The world is fighting with COVID-19. Humanity is seeking for ways to go back to normality and vaccination is considered to be the essential way to reach this goal. My country, Azerbaijan, has responded to the crisis very quickly and is tackling it very well. Today's discussion on the COVID-19 passports is very timely and important. In my humble opinion the introduction of COVID-19 passports should pass through heavy and tough scrutiny as it is almost certain to have very... 22/06/2021 | 09:18:08 Dear colleagues, First of all, I thank the rapporteur for working on this extremely important subject. I would like to attract your attention to the issue of algorithmic transparency. Virtually any member of parliament in any country today must use social media. It is the largest avenue to project ideas and collect feedback from society, and in theory, social networks are a perfect tool for promotion of democracy and freedom as they allow direct and live public discussion, but are they in... 21/06/2021 | 16:14:55 Thank you very much. Dear colleagues, before going back to my speech I would like to refer to the speech of our Armenian member of parliament, Ms Tatevik HAYRAPETYAN, who spoken about the brief conversation between Mr Aliyev and Mr Erdogan. I would like to say that this is completely unacceptable because what she said is completely taken out of context and distorted. This rhetoric is unacceptable and it's not in line with the code of conduct expected from members of the Parliamentary Assembly... 20/04/2021 | 18:01:24 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Dear colleagues, May I remind you that Azerbaijan has the largest refugee and IDP to overall population ratio in whole of Council of Europe space, technically in the whole Europe. Azerbaijani refugees, 1 million people, approximately 1/8th of population waited to go back to their homes for almost 3 decades. War is a very painful and dramatic process, it is a tragedy by all means. But the war in Karabakh is over now. A new situation, which... 20/04/2021 | 12:16:31 Dear Colleagues, Europe cannot be defined solely in geographical terms. It is, first of all, an idea so attractive that over centuries people and countries choose to navigate towards it, embracing European identity. Today Europe is a civilizational and cultural construct, that expanded well beyond the natural borders of European "peninsula" of the Eurasian continent over last few centuries. Today, one of the most important questions is the question of where the European border of Europe... 19/04/2021 | 20:04:42 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Dear colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to a very challenging situation that Azerbaijan faces today. It is the problem of return of IDPs and refugees to the recently liberated territories, that have been under Armenian occupation for 3 decades. May I remind you that Azerbaijan has the largest refugee and IDP to overall population ratio in whole of Council of Europe space. Around 1mln out of 8mln people of those times were... 28/01/2021 | 12:05:02 Dear colleagues, it's really unfortunate that even now, when we live in the 21st century, we still have such notions as racism, discrimination and xenophobia. In the current report, the main focus was made on the ethnic profiling by law enforcement officers, as they do identity checks on a daily basis and some individuals are being singled out for such checks solely on the grounds of race, colour, national or ethnic origin, or perceived religion. However, we should not consider police and law... 28/01/2021 | 11:10:39 Dear colleagues, good afternoon. Forewarned is forearmed: this is a very old and very common proverb; in essence it says that information in fact is a weapon. This proverb was around long before social media came to our lives. Since that time information became even more important. It is the source of political, economic, and even military power. And we have a small group of businesses that own the vast majority of information. They own most of data. They are the so-called Big Tech companies...