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... 11/10/2023 | 16:41:54 Mister President, We are living in bad times. Dear colleagues, We are witnessing black pages of European history; military means and cruel violence are used to solve political problems. Power politics is back in its most cruel format. Obviously, everything is overshadowed by this ruthless Russian aggression against Ukraine. We have also witnessed in South Caucuses the deportation of a whole nation from the ancient territories where they have lived – and really lived – a thousand years in... 20/06/2023 | 16:31:54 Thank you very much, Madam President. I am also speaking as a rapporteur for the national political reform process in Belarus, the report process here in the Council of Europe. It was a great moment to listen to the democratic lady of Belarus, Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA to address us today. In a similar way, it was a very emotionally strong moment when this accession started to have the white and red colours of the Volny Chor addressed to us by singing. The words were very indicative... 27/04/2023 | 16:51:15 Mister President, I see the time constraints and I will try to be very brief, knowing that the speakers list is still very long. Mister President, You know very well, when we are discussing countries like Belarus and countries like Russia, we are frequently saying that the place for politicians is in parliament, not in exile or in prison. That's a basic in any democratic society in politics. Mister President, You know similarly well that the place for a child is in a home, in a secure family...