24/01/2022 | 18:08:59 Thank you very much, Madam Chairperson. May I congratulate you on your election as the chairperson of the committee? Now we are going to consider the amendments to the draft resolution. The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development has presented a draft resolution in Document 15435 to which seven amendments have been tabled. There's also a recommendation to which one amendment has been tabled. I understand that the Chairperson of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health... 24/01/2022 | 15:52:25 Thank you dear colleague. I think that the Assembly owes you and your colleagues great respect for probably longest election observation mission that we've had in our Assembly because you've done several elections in Bulgaria. I now call on Ms Marina BERLINGHIERI to present the report of the ad-hoc Committee of the Bureau on the observation of the Parliamentary Assembly in Kyrgyzstan. I understand Ms Marina BERLINGHIERI that you are online. You have three minutes and you have the floor. Can... 24/01/2022 | 15:39:25 Dear colleague, The next item is the presentation by Mr Rik DAEMS of the progress report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee. This discussion will be joined by the report of the Ad hoc committee of the Bureau on the observation of the presidential election in Bulgaria, presented by Mr Alfred HEER, and that of the Ad hoc committee on the observation of the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, which will be presented by Ms Marina BERLINGHIERI. We should be finished by 4:30 p.m. We will... 24/01/2022 | 14:05:26 Thank you very much. Our rules say that now a spokesperson on behalf of the Monitoring Committee could comment on the proposal. Do we have Mr FASSINO with us at this moment, here or online? As I do not see a representative of the Bureau of the Monitoring Committee at this stage, so we do not have the opinion of the Monitoring Committee so we proceed with the vote on the alteration of the Agenda moved by Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO. Those who support the proposal should vote "YES" and those who... 24/01/2022 | 14:00:00 Where are we? Now we come to the consideration of the current affairs request under the title “Current challenges to European security: what role for the Council of Europe?” from the five political groups. At its meeting on Friday the Bureau approved this request, and therefore recommends to the Assembly that the matter be debated during this part-session. Does the Assembly agree to this recommendation? I see no opposition. The Bureau’s recommendation is therefore accepted, and the request... 24/01/2022 | 13:48:11 Dear colleagues, In 1949, 20 million waiting people gathered here in Strasbourg on the Place Kléber for the very first meeting of our Parliamentary Assembly. There, the first members of our Assembly were warmly welcomed by the citizens of Strasbourg as representatives of hope after so many years of despair. Today, dear colleagues, there are no crowds on the Place Kléber to receive us, but all over Europe there are millions of people whose lives and basic rights are linked to the question of... 24/01/2022 | 13:37:33 Dear colleagues, changing the presidency does not mean changing the course that this Assembly has chosen in the recent past, not at all. By adopting last year's resolution on the Assembly's vision on the strategic priorities for the Council of Europe we have already set our clear agenda for the next years. And I promise that I will do my utmost to realise that agenda. As the statute of the Council of Europe states in its Article 1 it is our common obligation to help and "to achieve a greater... 24/01/2022 | 13:35:49 Thank you very much, dear Mr Boriss CILEVIČS. Ladies, gentlemen, dear colleagues, Can I thank you very much for granting me the great honour of being your new President of our Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe? Can I thank the members of the Dutch delegation and those of the Group of the Unified European Left, as well as all the other members who helped me to stand for this prestigious post on the basis of the agreement between the political groups in this Assembly? May I also... 29/09/2021 | 16:32:49 Thank you very much, Mister President. May I first compliment you for taking the lead in organising this Council of Europe environmental day. That is the achievement by you and our Assembly. May I also thank especially Ms DE WEVER and all those numerous young activists throughout the world, who worldwide, contribute so much in making us politicians aware that our very future is at stake. If we do not act now and do not act decisively to halt climate change and the disastrous pollution of the... 27/09/2021 | 19:29:37 Thank you very much Mr President. Indeed it is a pity that we are not able to have a full fledged debate. I thank the speakers on behalf of the political groups, to the others who had registered to take part and should have been entitled. But there is no room for you to manoeuvre, so I accept this decision. I think in general it is clear the Assembly underlines this report, this resolution, the importance of immunity for us as members. Indeed, as was said, it is not a personal gift to us, it...