30/01/2020 | 19:47:01 The committee is in favour. I shall now put the amendment to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. The amendment is agreed to. Amendment 10. Will you speak about the Amendment 10? Ms Yelyzaveta YASKO. No? You withdraw. Anybody still wants to to keep it, no? Now, it looks like Amendment 29 is also withdrawn. Does anybody wish to speak now? So I think we finished the list of amendments and we now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Document 15031 as amended. The vote... 30/01/2020 | 19:32:36 Thank you. The debate is closed and 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 29 amendments have been tabled. I remind you, the speakers, that speeches on the amendments are limited to 30 seconds. I understand that the Chairperson of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) wishes to... 30/01/2020 | 18:32:12 thank you and I also have the duty to remind you that you cannot correct the vote but your words will be put on the record. Thank you so I do not see more wishes to speak and so we are now going to our next item. The next item business this afternoon is a debate on the report titled “The progress of the Assembly's monitoring procedure (January-December 2019)“. This is document 15031 presented by Sir Roger GALE on behalf of the Monitoring Committee. I would like to say that in order to finish... 29/01/2020 | 17:38:46 Thank you, Mr Chairman. We are talking about the complementary joint procedure. I have to say to Mr Frank SCHWABE my congratulations. It's a very nice paper, a very nice document. It's really the masterpiece of manipulation of different legal things. So we created really a very nice thing, a very nice mechanism. We are all saying it will be very much applicable for the future but I have doubts. I think it will never work. It will never work for two reasons. One reason because it's too... 27/01/2020 | 15:22:43 Thank you, Mister Chairman. I would like to start from the sheet of paper, the written observation of early parliamentary elections in Belarus. I think there is a mistake, they had to be the word parliamentary "selection" in Belarus. Because, really, we are not observing who is elected, but what the election commission selects before you can elect. So, probably, we cannot speak about the freedom of election, that's one. The second thing. With time I was not observing these elections, I have... 03/10/2019 | 20:19:43 Thank you, all the people who participated in the discussion. We have some conclusions from that discussion. I would like to list some key words, which are very important to understand Moldova as a country and to understand the report we prepared. I would start with the words "complexity and diversity". Some of these discussions said that, of course, Moldova is not a big country, but its very complex, very diverse — ethnically, politically, and of course I agree with Mr Aleksei KONDRATEV. It... 03/10/2019 | 16:29:27 Thank you, Madam Chairperson. I have a question here for my Russian colleagues. Why are we talking, and talking, and talking about Russia and the problems about Russian democracy? The answer is simple. Because we are an institution of democracy. I have to remind you that today we have a very interesting holiday. It is the day of the unification of Germany. If you don't remember, I'll remind you. Some decades ago, Germany was united. When I was a child at school, I asked why Germany had two... 02/10/2019 | 20:02:25 Thank you. Thank you Madam Chairperson. I would like to start with the history. More than 100 years ago, at the beginning of 20th century Europe spoke about the so-called Macedonian question. It was a very serious thing as we remember from the historic handbook the solution of the Macedonian question was not simple. Someone tried to solve the Macedonian question by war, by division, by the creation of Yugoslavia, by many means. But no means were very successful. Now at the end of the 20th... 27/06/2019 | 17:37:04 Thank you once again, Madam Chairperson. This time I want to speak about the Nemtsov case. This week we have had a very strange plenary part session. Day after day, we are talking about things and discussing the reports, but in reality this should not be the business of the Council of Europe. The business of the Council of Europe is not to investigate murder cases, or to invent the mechanisms to make a little non-democratic country democratic, to make it into a nice member of the Council of... 27/06/2019 | 16:40:10 Thank you. Madam Chairperson, we are talking today about the country which, as a rapporteur said, has the longest history of different monitoring procedures. Monitoring, now post-monitoring. We are really discussing here one question. To stop post-monitoring dialogue and to say that Bulgaria is a full democracy or to continue looking for excuses for why we cannot say finally yet. I know what we can find in each country. Some negatives and positives. If necessary we can list the full...