30/01/2025 | 11:55:24 "Thank you, Madam President" (spoken in French). First, we have real fighting democrats on the balcony. I remember in 1993, when I was started to be, but we have them here. That is a huge step forward that we agree, friends, with the structural changes. And they have their office here, they will be observing our work. And I invite to structuralise until the end and to have them in the committees. So welcome, welcome. Secondly, we have just [had a] hybrid attack from Mr Alexander LUKASHENKO's... 29/01/2025 | 17:21:02 Dear President, Georgia was a key. Georgian society was a key power in the 1990s. In my time, when I remember when they were supporting us in Lithuania to destroy the evil empire, the Soviet Union. I remember all of them. I remember Mr Zviad GAMSAKHURDIA. I remember other friends from 1989. I remember printed anti Soviet, anti communist democratic newspapers in Vilnius for Georgia in the Georgian language. It was our common goal to destroy the evil empire, to destroy the ruins of Mr Josef... 28/01/2025 | 17:06:29 Thank you, dear friends. It is good that we are coming back to issues related to the Middle East. It will be good to have a report about Aleppo too. It will be good to have reports about the Syrian government's crimes and other issues. But probably it will follow. From my point of view, this matter is related to the essence of what happened on 7 October. After 2005, when Prime Minister Sharon ordered to withdraw all Israelis from the Gaza Strip, we have the following development that the... 27/01/2025 | 11:49:55 It's correct. Thank you. So I would like to ask if under rule.. Yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, madam, thank you so much. Under Rule 8, your challenge must be supported by at least 30, I would like to say 30 members from at least five national delegations present in the chamber today currently. Will those members supporting this challenge please rise in your places and remain standing while we check whether the requirement is met? Ladies and gentlemen. Now, our table is just... 27/01/2025 | 11:40:08 Dear colleagues, It's a great occasion to see all of you, your faces. We wish you a happy new year, good health and we encourage you to fight for our European values in Europe, honourable distinguished countries. So we are proud to have all of you with your internally prepared conditions for this important week. So I would like to ask you for permission to declare the first part-session of the 2025 Ordinary Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of our Council of Europe declared to be open... 30/09/2024 | 12:28:04 It is an incredible moment of victory, of democracy, and it's not a gift from the Kremlin. It's our everyday efforts not to give the democratic world to be shrunk. And I would like to say that we have a chance to win. The democratic space led by people like Mr Vladimir KARA-MURZA is our chance to win. I would like to say thank you so much to everyone here. Vladimir, can you imagine our session, January session started with you. Everyone was appealing to the governments from this hall in... 26/06/2024 | 16:55:27 Dear colleagues and friends, I have spent more than 30 years in this Assembly. Now during the 75th year we are facing our unique phase that we are together, and we are voting in favour of mostly all the resolutions. In front of us, we have three rapporteurs. Ms Yevheniia KRAVCHUK's report is about a total annihilation and a political will to eliminate Ukrainian culture. Mr Davor Ivo STIER's report, he called in two words, I would like to cite my friend, "it's intentionally preparing the... 26/06/2024 | 10:42:47 Today is a historical day for our Assembly. Finally, we are assembled here for this pre-Nuremberg trial, even not having victory against this most terrible aggression, against us, against Europe. It's not only aggression against Ukraine. It's an aggression against us, all of us. The word declared from Moscow is against our democratic system. My colleague from the Social Democratic party just mentioned to all of you about eight years we struggled in this chamber to delete the Russian... 25/06/2024 | 12:48:47 It's great to see you in the Chamber. Remember our revolutions in the 90s, successful joining for all middle Europe and us trying to warn our Western neighbours that the war is coming. Now we are leading. Lithuania is under the chairmanship. So, tell us please, having in Vilnius, the Belarusian leadership of the Belarusian democrats, Russian leadership, even making steps towards day one. Tell us, how it will be important to extend our activities and support of democracies inside undemocratic... 25/06/2024 | 11:58:31 I am just representing the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy. We have unanimous support, George and Mister Chatzivasileiou and Madam Kravchuk. We supported you during all of our votes unanimously, so unanimously supported by all parties. Your struggle to finally bring the youth dimension and try to say how important it is, during the war against us, to strengthen our democratic qualities inside of our democratic societies, when outside of our democratic societies we have Belarus...