21/06/2021 | 16:42:51 Thank you, Petra. The debate is closed. In the meantime we welcome Minister Péter SZIJJÁRTÓ. We will be with you, Minister, in a couple of seconds. We have to work through a couple of elements. I hear that you flew in but that from the airport to here you also flew more or less. Again, thank you for being here, but just bear with us a couple of minutes. The Bureau has proposed a number of references to committees for ratification by the Assembly, set out in Doc. 15318. I don't suppose there... 21/06/2021 | 16:03:39 Please, be seated. Dear colleagues, we will start. Please, be seated. Thank you. The sitting is open. Can I remind members that it is a legal requirement for everyone here to wear a mask, even when taking the floor and to have the mask over the nose because it sometimes slips down. I see we are controlled from the governmental side. So, don't.. I see some without the mask, please. Otherwise, I will send in the police, or worse, the ambassador! Voilà, everyone got his mask on? Okay. Colleagues... 21/06/2021 | 11:58:47 Thank you very much, Mr Sergey KISLYAK. The Secretary General does confirm that Mr Sergey KISLYAK did ask for a point of order. I did not see it, so I do apologise. It is true that the agenda has been adopted now, which puts me in a bit of an awkward situation. I an looking to my left, to the Secretary General. Is it appropriate to still have a vote on this request? Is that possible? Because of the technical connection problem, I judge it fair that whoever asked for the floor in time should... 21/06/2021 | 11:44:14 Which brings me to this small artifact, if you allow me to do so. Welcome to our Secretary General, Assistant Secretary General? I don't know... is that the right title? Not assistant but deputy Secretary General, sorry about that. President of the Congress. Obviously our own Secretary General, who manages to make sure that everything works well with all of our team. But it brings me to this small artifact. I don't know whether you can put it on the screen for a bit. It's a bell. Now, some of... 21/06/2021 | 11:40:07 Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear colleagues, I would like to welcome you all here in Strasbourg and to all of you who are connected to the Internet. The sun is out. We have, as always, excellent cooperation with the French authorities, who have asked me, once again, to tell you that you must keep your mask over your nose in the building, please. I know there's a nice lady to my left where it's always a bit of a rush, so please respect the health rules. I know we've put them in place a bit strictly... 22/04/2021 | 13:02:02 I hope that in June we will be able to have the same meeting — Madam Ambassador, I see you are there — and, who knows, at the end of September, we could change to have our meeting in a normal way. As I said, this is third gear. June will be the fourth, September, fifth, and then, to have the grand finale at the end of the year, I don't know, we'll see! In any case, a big thank you to all of you. Many thanks to our services under the leadership — as we say in beautiful French — of our new... 22/04/2021 | 13:00:48 Anyway, I would like to thank each and every one of you having come down to Strasbourg, or come up to Strasbourg. Either way you see it or look at it. It was very important for us to have the second physical meeting with remote access, which makes it hybrid. We had over a hundred colleagues of parliament coming to Strasbourg. If we count all the people around them we basically were able to have more than 500 people down here which shows that if we are careful, and I hope you all stay careful... 22/04/2021 | 09:04:08 Dear colleagues, the sitting is open. Please be seated so we can start with our work. We will head off with a communication from Minister Michael ROTH, Special Representative of the Federal Government for the German Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. Herzlich wilkommen, Herr ROTH. As you know this will be followed by parliamentary questions for oral answer. I invite Mr ROTH to address the Assembly. I could start with giving a big hallo and explaining why we are... 21/04/2021 | 17:02:13 Thank you Madam Commissioner. My little hunch was there. I thank you for responding to all the questions. I do apologise to all our colleagues who cannot put their questions but this one hour during this session seems to be really not enough. I mean I've got like more than 30 left for you. I had 70 left for Merkel. I had 50 left for Sassoli. We will try to figure out a way to do better. But anyway, thank you very much for having been here and obviously you are available for all the colleagues... 21/04/2021 | 16:04:02 Okay dear colleagues, please be seated. The sitting is open. We now have the Annual activity report 2020 by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. We will hear from our dear friend Ms Dunja MIJATOVIĆ. After your address, Ms Dunja MIJATOVIĆ, as you know, you will take questions. As I always say, questions are the ownership of those who put them to you, and you are the master of your answers. Without any due delay, because I think that many people wish to put questions to you, I...