27/04/2023 | 15:03:32 Thank you very much to both presidents. My question would follow up a bit with what was said by Mr Damien COTTIER. President, I am behind you actually, in this direction behind your back. We had our last summit 18 years ago. And I think in the past couple of weeks the Council of Europe has proved that it is an important international organisation but we feel that without the summits, this organisation is lagging behind the other international organisations. So do you see it, by your own... 24/04/2023 | 15:30:47 Mister President, our Secretary Generals, Dear Mister Aleksander POCIEJ, Today we are all Warschauwers/Varsovians. I would like to mention three questions very briefly: the 4th Summit, the register, and Kosovo. The 4th Summit is approaching in three weeks. Our main aim is the renewal of the Council of Europe. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has been the engine behind this process. Congratulations to everybody who played a role in that. We must remain the engine in... 26/01/2023 | 12:36:05 Prime Minister, thank you very much for basically moving into Strasbourg. We have met you before and hopefully, we will do so. I think your leadership, until now, has been impressive and Iceland has done a fantastic job until now. Obviously, we are in the last phase of the preparation for the Summit. We have four months to go. We have made our contribution. Our contribution, I think, is remarkable, as you said – thank you very much. And I suggest that all the Committee of Ministers members... 24/01/2023 | 19:33:14 Thank you, President, and thank you colleagues for the very stimulating discussion this afternoon and this evening. I listened to everybody. I do not know how many, but probably some of you did the same. It would be really very difficult to summarise what was said but I would like to underline what Mr Davor Ivo STIER quoted from Ms Baerbock quoting Adenauer, the soul of Europe is a formulation, which, I think, when we are entering the 75th anniversary of our existence as the Council of Europe... 23/01/2023 | 15:52:34 Thank you, President, I would like to congratulate you and all new office holders of this Assembly. I wish you a successful work to all of you in the coming year. I would like to congratulate also all national delegations. We have not had an easy challenge in front of us. We had to create an appropriate gender balance in the organisation. One third of all national delegations are now ladies and we have done it. I was doubtful about our ability to do this, but we have done it. So... 12/10/2022 | 17:36:06 Dear Mr John HOWELL, Dear colleagues, Dear rapporteurs, Dear Mr Eerik-Niiles KROSS, I also hope that you don't traffic human organs in Estonia. Electoral autocracy and such terms, it seems political witch-hunting continues. This report is ideologically biased, and does not reflect reality, constructivity, [and] fits into a series of reports named after people like Mr Rui Tavares, Ms Judith Sargentini and more recently, Ms Delbos-Corfield. This exercise goes against the interest of the... 11/10/2022 | 11:55:14 Thank you very much, Mr President. I would like to welcome also our Kosovo colleague who was able for the first time to address the plenary of the Parliamentary Assembly. The Western Balkans is really a European region becoming, like many times in the 20th century, more and more a playground of great power rivalry. Over the 19 years which have passed since the Thessaloniki Summit, the commitment to enlargement has been confirmed many times at the highest level. However, this length of time... 23/06/2022 | 11:05:40 Thank you. Does anyone wish to speak against the oral amendment? No? The Committee is obviously in favour. I shall put the oral amendment to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. The oral amendment is agreed. Oral Amendment 2. I have received an oral amendment to the English version only, from Mr George LOUCAIDES, which reads as follows: In Paragraph 4 delete the words "calls upon" and insert "invites". The President may accept an oral... 23/06/2022 | 11:02:30 Thank you, Mister Samad SEYIDOV. Dear Colleagues, The Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) has presented a draft resolution to which 10 Amendments have been tabled. They will be taken in the order in which they appear in the Compendium. I remind you that the speeches and amendments are limited to 30 seconds. I understand that the Vice-Chairperson of the Monitoring Committee wishes to propose to the Assembly... 23/06/2022 | 10:08:39 The first item of business this morning is the debate on the report titled "The Honouring of Membership Obligations to the Council of Europe by Malta" presented by Mr Bernard FOURNIER and Mr George LOUCAIDES on behalf of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee). In order to allow time for the second debate this morning, I will interrupt the list of speakers at about 10.40 a.m. to allow time for the reply and...