22/01/2024 | 17:39:41 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Promotion and consolidation of pluralist democracy is one of the main objectives of the Council of Europe and its Parliamentary Assembly and in that sense Obeservation of the early parlimentary elections in Serbia, following the main CE documents, indicates flows and failures in the process of the electoral integrity. With due respect, considering that many important things are presented, I'd like to stress that this Report missed two... 11/10/2023 | 18:54:48 Thank you. Distinguished Chair, dear colleagues, First of all, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur for this excellent report. She managed to emphasise the situation and formulate recommendations about what could be done. Unfortunately, there is a great deal of prejudice against people with disabilities in our societies. It is obvious that these people are among the most marginalised. They experience stigma, prejudice, and suffer many different forms of exclusion from society and... 09/10/2023 | 17:34:20 Thank you. Distinguished President, dear colleagues, Let me remind you all, that in addressing the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in January this year, I warned that the political dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina had reached its turning point. Either the Community of Serbian Municipalities will be formed or it will sink into irrelevance. And further, we are witnessing the culmination of the long-term crisis, due to Pristina’s attempts to completely exclude Belgrade from... 19/06/2023 | 17:11:07 Thank you, President. Mister Minister, It's a pleasure to see you here. As a representative of the Hungarian minority living in Serbia, I'm really witnessing the really good relations between Serbia and Hungary. I think part of it is because Serbia is constructive. Serbia understood in receiving our constructive proposals. Therefore, I would like to ask you about minority rights: how we can refrain different countries from withdrawing already-achieved minority rights and how we can ensure... 26/04/2023 | 19:54:22 Thank you. The debate is closed. The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights has presented a draft resolution (Document no. 15724) to which 2 amendments have been tabled, and a draft recommendation to which no amendments have been tabled. Amendments are listed in the compendium. We will start with consideration of the draft resolution and will then consider the draft recommendation. I understand that the chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights wishes to propose to... 25/04/2023 | 19:56:53 Thank you very much, the debate is closed. The Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy has presented a draft resolution [Doc. 15740] to which no amendments have been tabled. We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Doc. 15740. A simple majority is required. Ah, OK. I saw that something is happening and I wasn't sure what is happening. So, we will wait for a few minutes... but we can open the vote. So, dear colleagues, the vote is now open. The vote is closed. I... 24/04/2023 | 16:11:51 Thank you. Distinguished Madam Secretary General, 25 years after the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities entered into force, the situation in the field of minority rights has changed, following social and political changes in the world. Besides the fact that the Council of Europe works quite well as a norm-setting organisation and does have the power of normative reference, how did you see the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities as a... 25/01/2023 | 17:19:52 Distinguished Chair, dear colleagues, dear rapporteurs, On behalf of the Group of the European People's Party I would like to congratulate Ms Zita GURMAI, Ms Petra STIENEN, and Ms Margreet De BOER on their tremendous work and fight you are doing all the time. It is unfortunately a sad fact that in every country in the world women experience sexual, physical, and emotional violence. On the one hand, domestic violence is a widespread form of violence. On the other hand, freedom from violence is... 25/01/2023 | 16:34:37 Distinguished Chair, dear colleagues, Since 2011 the European Union has facilitated a process of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina. On 19 April 2013 the Brussels Agreement was signed. Fully understanding that the EU accession process and normalisation of relations should run parallel and support one another, the Republic of Serbia will remain entirely committed to the continuation of the normalisation process and its dialogue with Pristina. The latest report of the Serbian government's... 14/10/2022 | 12:24:37 Thank you. I shall now put the amendment as sub-amendment to the vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. I call for the results to be displayed. Amendment 9 as amended is agreed. We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Document 15608 as amended. A simple majority is required. The vote is now open. Thank you. The vote is closed. I call for the results to be displayed. The draft resolution as amended is adopted. As there have been no amendments, we will now proceed...