10/10/2022 | 12:06:03 I will perhaps say it in German, because when I express it emotionally, it is correspondingly easier for me. I think we have to be clear that this organisation – and this has also been the case in the discussions of the last few days and weeks – is at a crossroads. Human rights in general are at a crossroads worldwide, multilateralism is at a crossroads, and the ability of a united Europe to act is. In our organisation, in the Council of Europe, this question is crystallising. That's why the... 10/10/2022 | 12:03:49 Dear Mr Boriss CILEVIČS, may I join the best wishes and thanks from the President. Dear Mr President, Dear colleagues, Dear brave people of Ukraine who have to suffer a lot these minutes while we are sitting here. This, that the Ukrainians are suffering the Russian aggression against Ukraine, this was a reason why we found, let's say courage, to say we need to renew the basis maybe of this organisation. We want to go for a fourth summit. We are preparing this fourth summit, the both statutory... 23/06/2022 | 15:35:51 Mister President, Dear colleagues, first I would like to thank you that you appointed me unanimously as the first speaker in this debate. I thank you for this trust and for the support and to do this. So this discussion is in general not about the question of migration or the rights of asylum seekers. Although we have to understand that there is a big challenge for sure, there is a big challenge, because on the one hand we ask for support and to respect the Geneva Convention. And on the other... 21/06/2022 | 19:27:25 Thank you so much, Mr President. It is a little bit unexpected. I do not know if I need it, so I really would like to thank all of you, I think it is very clear and it is very clear again that we are very united on the question of not just Russia's aggression towards Ukraine but on the human rights violations in Russia and how to deal with it, as well. I would like to thank those, in this organisation, who are really committed to human rights and who are working very hard on the issues and... 21/06/2022 | 18:18:40 It is not so easy, Mr President, but now we made it. Mr President, Dear Colleagues, People in Dagestan and Ossetia and Chechnya were suffering. A lot of them are really suffering in this time. You cannot speak about the human rights situation in Russia without mentioning the Russian war against Ukraine. It is in these minutes where Russia is committing a crime of the aggression of war and war crimes on the territory of Ukraine. I think you cannot understand the aggression outside of the... 21/06/2022 | 15:54:41 Thank you very much, Mr President. Dear Minister, Thank you very much for your chairmanship and your leadership. You mentioned the fourth summit, something that is really in a way, hopefully, in the end historical for this organisation. Historical in a very good way. We do not need to renew our values because the values are good. We have to renew the willingness to fight for those values and to make it very clear that all those countries have to follow those values and the judgments of the... 21/06/2022 | 12:24:13 Dear Mr President, dear Minister, dear Secretary General, dear Ms Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, and I think we have no doubts if Belarus would deal with the values like we understand it, you would be the elected President of Belarus. So, thank you very much that you are accepting our invitation and thank you very much that we share common values and some common aims for Europe. And we expressed this in a report in April, we decided here in this Assembly. And we agree the best would be that if we... 20/06/2022 | 11:58:01 A point of order, I just want to argue in favour. I think we have to elaborate this whole procedure in the Presidential Committee because I think it's not clear what the situation is. Let's imagine if we had four or five proposals – what does it mean? We vote in favour of the first two, and nobody is aware that the last three are following. So we really have to check it. But I for sure would like to speak in favour, to have the current affairs debate on the agreement on asylum seekers between... 20/06/2022 | 11:55:26 First, I understand that you need a certain majority to change the decision of the Bureau. Second, there was no possibility to speak against, no? It is not foreseen to have a...? The problem is just that I think we have to explain before we decide on something why we vote in this direction, no? At the end we can have maybe 20 current affairs debates, but this would mean that we don't have space for the usual debates. And I think the colleagues are not aware of it. And this was the reason, I'm... 27/04/2022 | 17:10:47 Thank you very much, Mr President. Thank you very much, dear colleagues, for this extensive and intense debate. I would like to say, first things first, I would like to say that I'm very happy to see so many Ukrainian colleagues. We had this visit in Ukraine and the situation is still horrible but anyhow it's good to have you here and we try to do everything that we keep you on working as an organisation, we provide for all this all the best. Second one, I want to thank the Secretariat for...