01/10/2024 | 20:37:32 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Dear Colleagues, According to the CoE core principles, we need to work jointly to ensure the engagement of every member State to strengthen democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in our countries. To achieve these goals we need to make all efforts to work together and be more concentrated on cooperation, rather than exclusion. We have an absence of the Azerbaijani delegation and lack the opportunity to have their opinions and... 01/10/2024 | 12:35:27 Secretary General, Congratulations on your election, and I wish you success in your future endeavours. Your mandate comes at challenging times for Europe with Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine undermining the international rules-based order and the core values of the Council of Europe. Regretfully, Russia continues the illegal occupation of my country, 20% of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region. We see that persistent human rights violations in both occupied regions continues to cause... 30/09/2024 | 16:04:01 Thank you, Mister President. Last week we hosted the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe pre-election delegation to Georgia, and we appreciate the high interest of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for the upcoming elections. The statement of the delegation raises concerns about impartiality and fair assessment of the development in Georgia. As far as none of the concerns raised by the ruling Georgian Dream Party representatives have been highlighted in their... 25/01/2024 | 12:27:13 Thank you, Mister President. Madam Minister, Thanks a lot for your really great address regarding Georgia's territorial integrity and sovereignty and for your really good support and strong voice to mention Russia's aggressive steps towards Georgia and Georgia's occupation. Thank you also for your strong language about declaring the role of peaceful conflict resolution and non-recognition policy. I wanted to know what your view is regarding the efforts and efficiency to utilise existing tools... 24/01/2024 | 16:51:17 Thank you, Mister President. It's OK. It's always difficult to pronounce my names. Let me start by expressing my gratitude to the rapporteurs for their contribution and elaboration of this really useful and important report, because it emits the demand that is now very actual, not only for the particular country, but to the democratic community. I am very happy that we, as Georgians, have very good co-operation with the OECD. We are not member country yet. However, we enjoy their expertise...