28/04/2022 | 11:25:40 Thank you, Mr Chair. It is very logical, after having unanimously condemned politically the Russian aggression to Ukraine, to discuss now the legal accountability, especially regarding war crimes, and the crime of aggression. We should all stand unanimous in that. We have objected to a part of the report that is related to the establishment of an ad hoc tribunal. I remind you that the political has outvoted a similar proposal. This proposal has been subsequently voted at the plenary, at the... 27/04/2022 | 18:21:09 Thank you, Madam President. This is a very original and innovative report and I would like to congratulate the rapporteur. You know that throughout our legal systems, usually, confiscated criminal assets go either to the national budget or sometimes to the budget of justice. The idea of the social reuse that is adopted by the report it's very much innovative and educational, because first it contributes to our new legitimation of the judicial system, its visibility, second it is very useful... 27/04/2022 | 10:17:55 Thank you very much, Mister Chair. I would like to thank Mr Frank SCHWABE for a thorough report which makes another step towards our response to the crisis in Ukraine. We have reacted in a swift, united and principled way. We should continue towards this direction. For us, the immediate end of the war is a priority, of course, in accordance with international law and the report demonstrates the necessary solidarity. I would also like to praise the reference to the living forces in Russia and... 25/04/2022 | 17:20:20 Thank you very much, Mister Chair. Of course, the great challenge we had before us was the Russian aggression. And we reacted to that in an unequivocal and unanimous way. We condemned it as contrary to international law and all the leaders of the groups, together with our President, we have visited Ukraine in order to demonstrate the solidarity. But now we are arriving at a time when we should discuss policies about the end of the war and its aftermath. And we have heard already, by my dear... 15/03/2022 | 10:13:26 Dear Chair, Our organisation has been the first international organisation to react to the Russian invasion, as it has reacted to the Greek dictatorship in 1968. We should thank Mr Tiny KOX not just for his recent leadership, but also for being the father of the joint procedure who gave a new role to our organisation and allowed us to set this unequivocal method against the war. Not just out of pacifistic reasons, but exactly because the Russian invasion was against international law, was... 27/01/2022 | 12:25:38 Thank you very much. Unfortunately, we have a return to a Cold War climate also with inflammatory rhetoric according to which war is looming, eminent. The need for immediate [inaudible] the escalation is obvious, both at the level of actions and at the level of rhetoric. In Ukraine they too have the Minsk Protocol. It should be fully respected and built upon for a conceptual exit of the crisis. It is very worrisome that Europe, especially the European Union, is out of this discussion. Russia... 26/01/2022 | 18:06:53 Merci Madam la Présidente. It may seem like an anticlimax to discuss this item after the very spirited discussion we had regarding the credentials. However I believe that the continuation of the discussion is very useful, because it helps us respond to the question of how we're going to treat Russia. The answer is very simple – I could just refer to what Mr Piero FASSINO or Mr Frank SCHWABE have said – like all the other member States of our organisation. That is to say, we demand full... 25/01/2022 | 17:51:40 Thomas Jefferson been here in France has said famously in 1878 that if he had to choose he would prefer to have newspapers without government than the other way around. This is true: press is precious for our democracies. But that under two conditions. First of all, independence from the government. Second, to reflect reality. We cannot have true freedom of expression and of opinion if factual information is not guaranteed. this was true at the time of Jefferson, but in nowadays we have... 25/01/2022 | 12:40:11 Thank you very much, Mr Chair. I would like myself to welcome President KOMŠIĆ to our Assembly. You are very right to say that imposed constitutions create problems when they are not freely decided by the people, we have seen that in Bosnia, we have seen that in Cyprus, and you are very right. I share much of your criticism for the complex system created after the Dayton Agreement. How do you envisage to overcome these problems through a constituent assembly beyond that the ethnical division... 24/01/2022 | 16:13:09 Thank you, Madam Chair. And first of all I would like to express my best wishes to you, all colleagues, the general secretary, the Secretariat, to the interpreters, for a better New Year. And I must say that I fully agree with the report on Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria. The report of former president Mr Rik DAEMS, whom, by the way, I would like to thank you for his service and his contribution. I'd like to speak a little about the election of Mr Tiny KOX, not in order to praise him, he does not need...