27/01/2022 | 10:14:46 Thank you Madam President. Combatting Covid-19 is difficult: the situation is changing all the time. It's particularly important to convince people to get vaccinated, to combat vaccination reticence. In the resolution it is indicated of course that citizens must be informed, and it must be indicated to them that vaccination is not mandatory. No-one can be subject to any form of political, social or economic coercion to become vaccinated. That's in accordance with our Resolution 2361 adopted... 27/01/2022 | 09:44:38 Madam President and Dear Colleagues, To begin with, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Stefan SCHENNACH. He was confronted with a difficult job of work and he acquitted himself brilliantly. Coming to the resolution on vaccination on Covid-19, it is generally a very good report, but in point 2, it is indicated that only WHO vaccines are reliable and effective and that is not really true. I would like to stress that the Russian vaccine, Sputnik V, which hitherto has not been... 28/09/2021 | 13:05:34 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Dear Mr. Chairperson, dear colleagues! Firstly, let me express my profound gratitude to Ms. Selin Sayek Böke for her report on the highly topical issue of social inequality in Europe. We commend initiatives within the Assembly aimed at recognising social and economic rights as important for people's lives and ensuring their consistent enforcement. The COVID-19 pandemic has tragically confirmed the need to strengthen the social dimension of... 22/06/2021 | 12:05:17 Thank you President. Dear colleagues, I would like to echo the words of thanks extended to our two colleagues the rapporteurs for their very detailed and precise work. We are happy to support it. While we are debating this issue, we should remember that the EU Summit which met in Brussels has already approved the adoption of a Covid pass which enables bearers to travel freely around the European Union without being imposed to mandatory tests when they enter countries or to go into... 21/04/2021 | 18:31:21 Thank you, sir. At the start of my statement, I also wish to express gratitude Ms Martine WONNER for the work she has performed. I would like, in my statement, to draw attention to an important aspect and continue on the thoughts of Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ, one of the forms of discrimination of citizens when they suffer from chronic diseases may be the absence of a state system of effective prevention. According to WHO data, four groups of chronic noncommunicable diseases make the largest... 20/04/2021 | 09:33:18 Mr President, Dear Colleagues, This subject of the so called COVID passports is a very sensitive one for many citizens. Any decisions must be taken on the basis of non-discrimination and without any politicisation. I would like to remind you that in the January session we adopted an amendment to a resolution that in fact was opposed to introducing such passports. Now in most cases this is a document with a QR code that contains medical information about the type of vaccine, the time of... 27/01/2021 | 10:55:29 President, colleagues, Allow me to begin by thanking Ms Jennifer DE TEMMERMAN, for the excellent work that she has done. Looking at the resolution within this report undoubtedly we support the view expressed by the PACE and the UN Secretary General to the effect that the COVID-19 vaccine should be a global public good. The Russian Federation in a focused and well-planned way is conducting work to achieve that. The Ministry of Health of Russia in August 2020 registered the first COVID-19...