26/04/2022 | 16:58:34 Thank you very much, President. First of all, I should like to pay tribute to this initiative from our rapporteur, Ms Reina de BRUIJN-WEZEMAN. In this report, she sets out and clearly details not only the over-institutionalisation of people with disabilities but also the way in which this is in contradiction with the conventions, both of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. In the draft bill under consideration in my own country, on the person and the family, we have taken a dual... 15/03/2022 | 17:17:09 Good afternoon. First of all, I would like to say that I would have loved to be present in Strasbourg for this very important debate, which is taking place in order to make it very clear how very concerned we are about the Ukrainian citizens, and the safety of our Ukrainian parliamentary colleagues. I started taking part in the work of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe three years ago. I remember the vote for the re-integration of the Russian Federation to the work of the... 25/01/2022 | 10:21:37 Thank you Mr President. I too would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you as have my colleagues done on your election. I wish you all the best and I wish you great success heading this noble institution. Congratulations. Also, I would like to take this opportunity to commend both our rapporteurs, Mr Fourat BEN CHIKHA and Mr Christophe LACROIX. Congratulations to the rapporteurs. As was said earlier, they are not only colleagues, they are also friends. I hold them in the highest... 24/01/2022 | 17:46:01 Thank you very much, Mr President. First of all, I would like to congratulate our two rapporteurs Baroness Doreen E. MASSEY and Ms Jennifer DE TEMMERMAN for the work that they have done and for having presented this new approach, this perspective of inaction on climate change as a violation of children's rights. It is important to look at it in this particular fashion. Today the new generations are neither in a position of responsibility nor power. They're not in a position to protect their... 29/09/2021 | 11:45:30 President, I'd like to start by congratulating everyone on the excellent work that has been done has been done by our rapporteurs and I would also like to state my firm support for their work because the climate crisis is undeniably the biggest challenge that we have ever faced. This is not a problem of the future, as some people are suggesting, it's a problem right now. This is a challenge that requires political action policy, coordinated and decisive political action. Europe must start... 22/06/2021 | 11:59:47 Thank you. First of all I would like to congratulate Mr Damien COTTIER, the rapporteur, as well as Ms Carmen LEYTE, the rapporteur for the opinion. I would like to thank both of their excellent work they've done. This is really a topical matter, the Covid-19 pass. Once again we find ourselves trying to strike a difficult balance between the protection of health, citizens' rights while at the same time promoting mobility and freedom of movement. Freedom of movement is important for the well... 21/06/2021 | 19:22:37 Thank you, Madame Présidente. This is an amendment that has had a long history. We discussed it with the main Rapporteur, and afterwards it was approved by the Committee. This afternoon it was not approved, however, by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. This amendment, which I am proposing, even though it is similar to the original Rapporteur's text, I think is more appropriate, better adapted to international standards. I think its content is more objective and clear. There... 21/06/2021 | 18:02:56 Thank you Ms President. Notwithstanding the fact that I have very little time to present my opinion, I want to seize this moment to draw attention to something that we looked at in the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, namely the whole process of presenting, preparing this report. It was my first experience of this type at the Council of Europe and t's a bittersweet experience, if I may put it that way. This opinion is an opinion that aims to be balanced. Once again I would like... 27/01/2021 | 11:56:26 Thank you very much. I would like to announce my support and I would like to thank the rapporteur, Ms DE TEMMERMAN, for this excellent text and for bringing the subject to our Assembly, as it is probably one of the most important issues of our time. Access to and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccination is a key issue. The report is a comprehensive one dealing with the legal, technical and practical issues concerning vaccination. As a member from a very small country, Andorra, what is... 26/01/2021 | 10:08:06 Thank you very much, as many of the previous speakers have done already, I would like to underscore the prestige and the status and positive image of the European Court of Human Rights. That is why all states have to do their bit to see to it that such an important and indispensable institution is given both the human and financial resources it so badly needs. I would also like to support the excellent work done by our rapporteur Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU and I share his concern to see to it...