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... 18/04/2024 | 17:18:25 Thank you, Mister Chairman, I will use German because it has been a language in my family. I would like to emphasise, anyway, everything Frank Schwabe has said is fair in my opinion. Two state perspectives, two states were supported over ten times at our meeting of this Oslo Agreement. The two-state solution remains. We must not forget that this attack on this peaceful Israeli side, not on settlements, but on Israeli territories, started on 7 October with the deepest preparation. These Hamas... 17/04/2024 | 17:30:35 Thank you, Chairman. I would like to start going outside of my report and to turn to Ms Evgenia KARA-MURZA, simply using the Russian shape of your grace and your great name. So I would like to say that we started the session, President, if you remember, you asked me to start the session as the longest serving member. All my five minutes I used to warn you and to find a way how to liberate Kara-Murza. That was my first statement in January when you were not here. But all our audience was... 17/04/2024 | 15:43:58 Dear President, dear colleagues. I have been in this chamber more like 30 years. It is a privilege to open this Assembly as a long-standing member and I never remembered that we have come to such stage of war, trying to cement ourselves against the creators of the war against our democratic civilisation, that is Russia and partly Belarus. In the case of Navalny as just mentioned, the German government officially stated that he was poisoned last time and was safe in the hospital Charité... 16/04/2024 | 16:54:20 Dear friends, we are here in 2024. In 1996, being the longest serving member of this Assembly, I remember official Russian commitments to our Assembly. One of the first points was withdraw Russian army from Transnistria, compensate victims of gulag, Siberia, Joseph Stalin repression. More like 30 commitments. Not one, mostly not one implemented. We're facing the fact that some of us tried to warn you during years and years. That Russia is preparing the world war against us, and they are based... 25/01/2024 | 16:41:20 Thank you, Mister President, Madam President, it is great to congratulate you here. That is a great occasion. Madam Secretary General, I am sorry for being late to ask you the question about our executive relations with the free and fair elected President of Belarus, Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, this cradle of brave people who representing a government in transition in Vilnius, my country. Thirty-four years ago, we were winning the war against the Soviet Union and we started working together... 23/01/2024 | 19:33:41 Thank you, dear colleagues, Thank you, dear friends, Today I would like to present my opinion, which actually should be presented by Mr Tural Ganjaliyev on behalf of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy. But unfortunately Mr Ganjaliyev could not attend our session today. I'm like the vice president presenting his opinion, like a rapporteur for opinion. The report prepared by the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons focuses on the exploitation and manipulation of... 22/01/2024 | 12:27:36 Now we are going to the other item, which will probably show our possible expression of our political will. In the next item on the agenda is the elections for the President of the Assembly. I have received one candidature: that of Mr Theodoros ROUSOPOULOS, member of the Greek delegation and Vice-President of the Group of the European People's Party (EPP/CD). The names of those members who have signed their support for his candidacy are contained in Document AS/Inf (2024) 03. Looking at the...