29/09/2026 | 19:48:32 Madam Chair. Our item is the honouring of membership obligations to the Council of Europe. That means democracy, human rights and the rule of law by Greece. Thanks very much to the rapporteur, Ms Laura CASTEL, and Ms Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, my fellow Finn, for this excellent report. Madam Chair, This is quite challenging, maybe a bit of an attractive challenge to start to put together two words: democracy and Greece. Actually Greece is the home of democracy as we know through our history... 29/09/2026 | 12:56:41 I'm so sorry. Apologies once again. Mr Secretary General, in your reform process, you are using the key concept "democratic security". Too frequently, we are contrasting hard security, soft security or state security, and human security. And you have really claimed this organisation for democratic security, soft security and human security. There are two states that are not members of this organisation in Europe – Russia and Belarus. Nevertheless, we met yesterday with Ms Maria KALESNIKAVA... 28/09/2026 | 16:30:43 Okay, should I start again? Fine, fine. Yes, Madam President, as a former rapporteur for Armenia of this Assembly, I read with very great interest and even concern the report concerning the elections in Armenia. You should remember that these were actually the first regularly scheduled parliamentary elections in Armenia since it transitioned to a parliamentary democracy, we can say. And the environment, both in external and internal ways, wasn't the easiest one, as has also been indicated by... 26/06/2024 | 11:49:21 Mister President, Thanks very much for these three excellent reports. Thanks very much for this very mature, important discussion we are having here today. Obviously, all are focusing on the brutal aggression Russia made against the independent sovereign state of Ukraine. We are now discussing here with serious consequences what has happened and obviously, to keep those accountable who are behind this brutal aggression. We are in full solidarity here together. That's why the items we are... 18/04/2024 | 18:26:24 Mister President, Two weeks ago, I visited Palestine and Israel meeting the political leadership on both sides. The country is full of fear, bitterness, hate. The international community is having too many double standards. That's my question, and I have lots of confusing questions to you to address. First, is it so that everything started on October 7th last year, or is it actually a vicious circle of decades, even centuries? Is it so that one war crime justifies other war crimes? Is it so... 16/04/2024 | 18:32:46 Mister President, Thanks very much to Ms Dora BAKOYANNIS, for this excellent, excellent report. As Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO just mentioned, you took on a serious challenge and you made an excellent, good report. You kept your integrity very clear and it is a balanced one for all of us to assess. Clearly, Ms Dora BAKOYANNIS, you were a bridge builder. You try to find issues where we can share views, opinions and have somewhat consensus. You try to seek solutions instead of controversies. We have... 25/01/2024 | 17:46:50 Now I'm actually a bit confused about what No. 2 is. Sorry to say "open", because we principally agreed all together, and we are in favour. Now the question is that I can't actually even see what Amendment 2 is. In the last point, also, when there was a question, "should somebody be against", you didn't ask what the rapporteur's opinion was there, because, obviously, I would explain why the two-thirds majority was against Amendment 9. Now I don't actually see Amendment 2. What is the content... 25/01/2024 | 17:35:24 Mr President, colleagues, Thank you very much for your remarks - very important contributions from all of you. Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, excellent speech, excellent profound speech. You were not only looking back, you were looking forward. You said very clearly that the destiny of Ukraine and Belarus are intertwined. You clearly said that without Ukraine winning you cannot actually build a democratic society, but you also said very clearly, without democratic sovereign Belarus, there will... 25/01/2024 | 16:34:03 Mister President, Dear colleagues, Dear friends, Ladies and gentlemen, It's a very, very great moment for me personally. A three-and-a-half-year process is at the end. We started the report process three and a half years ago. Particularly, I am very honoured that Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, the leader of the democratic opposition in Belarus, might say, my friend, you respect your present by your presence, this report process that we are now ending. That is a great honour. Thank you very much... 23/01/2024 | 17:33:06 Madam President, I am more than pleased that I can follow Ms Fiona O'LOUGHLIN for her excellent presentation but, unfortunately, I am not one hundred per cent sure where I am from listening to some of the statements today. We are supposed to be the leading human rights organisation of Europe, actually, in the whole world. We have said so many times that human rights are universal and we defend human rights everywhere. War crimes are war crimes, there are no excuses when war crimes are...