22/01/2019 | 10:07:39 First, I should like to apologise on behalf of my colleague, Dame Cheryl GILLAN, the rapporteur for this issue, who is unable to be present today because of a family illness. I thank the Secretariat and the Chair of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy for their invaluable assistance. I shall not speak for too long. The Venice Commission will follow and it will go into detail. There are also a lot of people who want to speak in this debate and I want to make time for them. I just... 21/01/2019 | 12:37:36 There are three items that I want to cover in this speech. First, we have two important elections in the territory of the former Union of Socialist Sovietic Republic territory, in Georgia and Armenia. It is important to see how democracy has been embedded in those countries. In Georgia, I have talked to my colleague Sir Edward LEIGH, who was one of the monitors there. There is a difference of opinion between our monitors and the monitors that the United States State Department report refers...