13/10/2023 | 10:20:00 Thank you. First of all I would like to thank Mr Pieter OMTZIGT for his great job and for this Report. I think maybe we even now underestimate the value of this Report. It's not just about Putin, it's not just about the fact that he is a dictator, it's about a much wider picture, why democracy matters. And on the example of Russia and Putin we see why democracy matters. When you have a dictator and dictatorship, and it's clearly said here in this Report that Putin is a dictator, no questions... 12/10/2023 | 16:05:45 Thank you very much. What is the topic of our debate? Let me quote, "The role of the Council of Europe in preventing conflicts, restoring credibility of international institutions, and promoting global peace and ensuring a just peace in Ukraine and lasting security in Europe." Do we really believe that we can achieve it just by talking and adopting resolutions? We have tried to do this for decades here. For decades we were just speaking with Russia, thinking that this was a dialogue which... 11/10/2023 | 17:23:57 Thank you very much. First of all, I'd like to thank the Rapporteur for an excellent job and not only for this report, but for years in this Assembly. But I need to start with something else, because in the previous topic, unfortunately, no single Ukrainian MP received the possibility to speak, accidentally, since so many people wanted to speak but for us it's very important because we Ukrainians are living through this terror every day. When we saw these horrors from Israel, it was so... 11/10/2023 | 15:11:22 Thank you, Mister President. First of all, thank you very much, Prime Minister and Minister, for all your personal support and to the people of Latvia for their support of Ukraine. My question is until Russia goes through the imperialisation it will pose a constant threat to all our countries. What concrete steps should be made by European countries and our organisations to tackle this challenge to protect ourselves? We are the only organisation, major international organisation, which kicked... 23/06/2023 | 11:25:27 Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I am so happy to speak now about such an important topic: the digital divide. Special thanks to the rapporteur, because that is about the future, because the digital divide creates huge problems for the future of our children, of our teenagers. We need to deal with it now in order to prevent awful consequences for our society. Usually, I am speaking here about what should be done, by us, by somebody else in the future, but now I want to share with you a... 23/06/2023 | 10:53:35 Thank you. Thank you very much, dear Chairman. First of all, I would like to thank the rapporteur for the great job done, especially the part about transnational repressions and killings organised by the Russian Federation, which is so striking. Starting from Novichok in Salisbury, coming to the killings organised by Mr Ramzan Kadyrov and other Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) people, that is really striking. What is really transnational and what is the next phase of Russian... 22/06/2023 | 18:38:46 Thank you very much Mister President. On behalf of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons, first of all, I would like to thank Mr Paul GAVAN, rapporteur, for a very important and courageous report. I would also like to thank the Secretariat of the Committee for all work done. I would also like to thank all members of our Committee. Today, we had a long and big debate and I think it was fruitful, so I want to thank everybody for this. The most important thing which I want... 22/06/2023 | 17:39:58 Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. That is about an important thing about which I spoke today. That, yes, there are really good Russians. But, it is not those people who are sitting somewhere hiding their money, Russian oligarchs who are saying they have nothing to do with what Mr Vladimir Putin is doing. Good Russians are those who are fighting against this war. Not so many, unfortunately, but there are. And one of them is Mr Vladimir Kara-Murza, and he is illegally detained and tortured... 22/06/2023 | 17:33:58 Thank you very much. I think this is an extremely important Amendment, because it is about nations colonised by Russia in North Caucasus, the Chechens, Circassians, Ossetians, Tatars, Buryats, Kalmyks. Russia is the last colonial empire in Europe. And under our eyes they are destroying the human rights of these people. In reality they are doing genocide of these people, sending them to die to Ukraine, to kill Ukrainians and to die themselves. So we need to speak about this and this Amendment... 22/06/2023 | 17:30:46 Dear colleagues, It is very important. The fact is that after the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy already made decisions and amendments, an urgent event happened. The President of Ukraine, Mr Volodymyr Zelenskyy, announced today the fact that Russia is preparing a terror attack and explosion on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe, the third biggest in the world. That is an extremely dangerous situation. We cannot ignore it...