20/04/2021 | 17:17:04 Thank you, Madam President, Ladies and gentlemen, I am speaking here on behalf of my group rather than as rapporteur for Azerbaijan. If I may, as someone who has been here in this Assembly for over a decade now and has heard a great many of these discussions, I would like to express a wish that we respect the fact that the guns are now silent. We do not need to hear any arguments between Armenia and Azerbaijan here either. That would be just a request to respect this meeting as well... 19/04/2021 | 16:22:13 Madam President, it's good to see you're here and not only many times in Chișinău. Congratulation on your speech. I will not ask you regarding the next movement of your constitutional court, which gives you the power to call a new election. I'm not asking you about the children without parents on the street, nor about the pandemic of corruption, which you named so many times. I'm the last one who chaired on the Council of Europe the talks between Transnistria and Moldova in January 2018. The... 28/01/2021 | 10:07:46 Thank you Mr President, I have listened very carefully to the debate and I am grateful for the many speeches. I can also understand that members from Georgia and Ukraine have a different opinion to mine, but nevertheless I am trying to continue along the path we have fought hard for over the last few years - the path of dialogue. I think it was Mr Frank SCHWABE who mentioned the film Groundhog Day. I was also asked by a Russian journalist whether it is now customary that every January the... 28/01/2021 | 09:05:18 When I was given the task of making this resolution, I remembered the work of the previous Presidents of the Assembly, Mr Michele NICOLETTI, Ms Liliane MAURY PASQUIER, and our current President and also the spirit that reigned over this work of more than two years. This spirit was called dialogue, talking together instead of talking about someone, being together and talking together, even if it is not always easy. If you really read my memorandum carefully, you will see that I have made a... 25/01/2021 | 17:24:47 Mr. President, Greetings from Vienna. I am a little jealous of all my colleagues who are now sitting in plenary and I have to stay in Vienna because it is parliamentary week. First of all, congratulations to Mr Michael Aastrup JENSEN, the Chairman of the Monitoring Committee, for this overview of the work of the Committee and the dedicated work of all the various rapporteurs. It has been a difficult year, I can only confirm, as I am also the rapporteur for Azerbaijan, and in many cases we... 20/11/2020 | 17:08:35 Now, I come back maybe in English. If you look into a society and then there are two twins, which tell you what is the level of democratic standards and the democratic society, and these are twins. One hand is the freedom of media and the other is the academic freedom and autonomy of the higher education institutes. And both are very, very important. And this report by Mr BRENNER shows us very, very clearly what is the problem, for what we have to take care and what are the worries. And I... 20/11/2020 | 15:53:45 President, I hope everything works. Mister President, on behalf of my group I would like to thank the rapporteur, Ms Ingjerd SCHOU, very much for this report. I think it is a further development, and it also brings clarity. As the former chairman of the Monitoring Committee, I can only say that these clarifications will strengthen the Monitoring Committee and clarify a number of things, because we have had a few debates on this over the past two years. This is therefore a good solution, and... 31/01/2020 | 11:56:15 Thank you, Mr President. Ladies and Gentlemen, This is a report, a resolution, which deals with a very key issue of human rights and, above all, of human dignity. At the same time, it is an appeal to all our member States to sign the Council of Europe Convention on Combating and Preventing Organ Transplant Tourism, which has been in force since 2018. We currently have only 9 signatures, and this Council of Europe Convention is the only instrument of international law. It is one of the... 30/01/2020 | 18:39:39 Thank you very much! This progress report from the Monitoring Committee -- it is a tradition that it is presented in January -- and I think that it shows, quite impressively, the immense amount of work that our colleagues do as rapporteurs. I remember back when I was the chair of the Monitoring Committee and we had to find a rapporteur for Ukraine. We calculated how long someone had spent in Ukraine overall to prepare the report, and it totalled three months of the time of intense crisis... 30/01/2020 | 17:14:47 Thank you, Mr President. Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I too would like to start by expressing my sincere thanks for these excellent reports and, above all, for not being afraid to call a spade a spade. For that is the modern slavery that we are experiencing here, and not all states react to it in the same intelligent way, I have to say that this also applies to member states. For example, in forced prostitution, the passports of the victims are taken away; such victims...