22/06/2022 | 19:03:37 I now shall put the sub-amendment to the vote. The vote this open. The vote is closed. I call for the results to be displayed. The sub-amendment is adopted. We now have to consider the main Amendment. Does anybody wish to speak against the Amendment as amended? That is not the case. So I now shall put the Amendment as amended to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the results to be displayed. Amendment 10 as amended is adopted. We now will proceed to vote on the... 22/06/2022 | 19:00:27 Thank you for that. The debate now is closed. I am glad that we could include all those on the speaker's list in the debate and I am proud of you that we were able to do so because you were disciplined in the participation in the debate. The Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons has presented a draft resolution, which you find in Document 15547 to which 13 amendments and one sub-amendment have been tabled. Amendments to the resolution will be taken in the order in which they... 22/06/2022 | 16:09:29 Thank you very much, Madam Boriana ÅBERG and Mister Kimmo KILJUNEN because there are two people speaking here in one person. Before opening the debate I would welcome in our Hemicycle the President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Mr Leendert Verbeek, sitting in front of me and the Secretary General of the Congress. They just returned from a very important and informative fact-finding mission to Ukraine where they especially met with many representatives of local and... 22/06/2022 | 15:36:44 Thank you, Mister François CALVET. As you know, a vote cannot be changed, but we have now duly taken note of your statement. So I think from now you can leave in peace with the rapporteur. I see Mr François CALVET still explaining what went wrong, but it is now taken note in the minutes of the meeting. We now come to the joint debate on the “Humanitarian consequences and internal and external migration in connection with the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine” (Doc. 15547... 22/06/2022 | 12:03:19 Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, May I now welcome to this Chamber Her Excellency Ms Katerina SAKELLAROPOULOU, the President of the Hellenic Republic. The President will address us and answer questions. Dear Madam President, You're sitting there, I'm sitting here. You are as tall as my Secretary General, but we can communicate in this way. Welcome to our Hemicycle, which I like to call an agora of Europe where dialogue and diplomacy flourish, taking inspiration from the Ecclesia in... 21/06/2022 | 19:43:51 Thank you very much, Mister President. Is there any objection? As I do not see any objection, I declare that the amendment to the draft recommendation has been agreed. Now we can and should and shall proceed to vote on the draft recommendation contained in Document 15545 as amended. I remind the Assembly a two-thirds majority is required because it is a recommendation. The vote is open. The vote is closed. May I call the results to be displayed? The recommendation is adopted unanimously... 21/06/2022 | 19:42:20 Does anybody wish to object? I do not see, so as there is no objection I declare that Amendments 7, 5, 1, 3, 4 and 6 to the draft resolution have been agreed. So now, as all the amendments have been approved and adopted, we will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Document 15545 as amended. A simple majority is required. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the results to be displayed: The resolution is adopted unanimously. Congratulations Madam Rapporteur... 21/06/2022 | 19:40:18 Does anybody object? I do not see. So as there is no objection, I declare that the amendment to the draft resolution has been agreed. We will now proceed - (I have such a good assistant here, keep going, keep going!) We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Document 15544 as amended and a simple majority is required. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the results to be displayed. The resolution is adopted unanimously. (Applause) I saw that the rapporteur... 21/06/2022 | 17:06:20 Thank you very much. A point of order should be a point of order. We have allocated half an hour. This has been communicated with the Assembly. If we need more time with our General Secretary, we should allocate more time. In half an hour we answered eight questions on the on the list. This is what it is. I do not see it as a point of order, but we will come back to that in the preparation of our next meeting. Thank you very much, Madam Secretary General, for answering the questions of this... 21/06/2022 | 16:30:22 Thank you, Mister Minister. This concludes the questions of our colleagues to you and your intervention in this Hemicycle. We are looking forward to seeing you back in October, hopefully, to update us on developments with regard to the evaluation of the function of the Council of Europe and the progress made in preparation of the fourth summit. For now, thank you very much for being here with us. We appreciate it very much. I now go to the next item. The next item is the questions to our...