26/01/2026 | 16:48:55 Thank you. Dear President, dear colleagues, The Parliament of Kyrgyzstan, as you know, has had the status of 'partner for democracy' with the Assembly since 2014. In its Resolution 1948, the Assembly underlined that progress in taking forward reforms with the prime aim of this partnership and should constitute the benchmark for assessing its efficiency. Against this backdrop, the Assembly stressed the importance of free and fair elections as a cornerstone of a genuine democracy and expressed... 01/10/2025 | 16:49:36 Thank you Madam President, I will speak in Greek. I'm very pleased to have some young people amongst us today. This report, and I'd like to congratulate the rapporteur, shows something which is simple, but in many countries is not a given. We have the repression of the protest marchers, of the young people. Young people who take to the streets for better jobs, to create families, to find where to live and to have more democracy than the one we've already created. This report is not for us, it... 01/10/2025 | 13:54:58 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Dear colleagues, Since Russia Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, more than 800 crimes against journalists and media professionals have been recorded. More specifically, 108 people have been killed which reporting, under shelling, or after torture. At least 26 Ukrainian journalists are currently detained in Russia or in temporarily occupied territories on fabricated charges, without fare trial, or adequate medical care. Many are... 26/06/2025 | 16:38:53 Thank you, Madam President. I speak in Greek. Dear colleagues, Ladies and gentlemen, In 2023, when there was the ceremony for the Greek parliament taking up its seats, we had the opportunity to invite someone. I invited my wife and I was asked whether she had become an MP. So I chose as my accompanying person one of my staff instead who was a disabled person and a friend who was also disabled and had a guide dog. It was the first time that inside the parliament it was clear that disabled... 26/06/2025 | 15:51:12 First of all, I'm delighted because my friend Mr Francesco VERDUCCI is here to support you with me. You, as women, and Ms Petra BAYR's narrative could be a manifesto in the future, from which nothing should be subtracted and nothing would need to be added and something which is going to guide us and steer us in the future. We have heard that women have the right to dispose of their bodies as they wish, for whatever reason they wish, at whatever time they wish. Ladies and gentlemen, Why do we... 26/06/2025 | 10:42:02 Thank you, Madam President. Allow me to speak in Greek. Dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, A few years ago, the League of Nations divided Africa into states. Nobody was actually asked about this or consulted. A convention was drawn up, an arrangement was made, and nobody from Africa actually took part in this. Borders were drawn within Africa without consulting the people on the ground. A few years later, a couple of European states had colonies scattered around the world, including... 25/06/2025 | 11:19:02 Dear colleagues, I would first of all like to congratulate the rapporteurs for this report, especially in the time that our parliamentary simply has the new parliamentary network Alliance for Good Governance and Integrity in Sport. And this is very important, but we have to be clear in this room, when we're talking about the Olympic Games or the Olympic Movement, it's not only the case when we have wars in the time of the Olympic Games. We have athletes that came from countries with... 11/04/2025 | 10:17:34 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, in this week we talked and we voted for very interesting reports and resolutions on the situation of human rights. But at the same time, this week we have an economic war, with taxes and war between the United States and Europe, the United States and China, and the United States with the rest of the world. We have to see the next day. We fight here for human rights. But what happens after this economic war? And we have to prepare for the next day... 10/04/2025 | 18:12:53 Thank you, Mister President. Unfortunately, I don't know how to speak Spanish. But I would like to congratulate Mr Antonio GUTIÉRREZ LIMONES for a very good job, because from this report he gave us the opportunity here in the Council of Europe to see the future, to see our future and of course to see the future with co-operation with other countries, not only with Latin America. This report is a roadmap and for the other relations for other countries, for East Asia, Central Asia, and African... 09/04/2025 | 20:07:06 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) The continuous Russian aggression in Ukraine is a blatant violation of international law and human rights. The tragedy of war has brought untold suffering, destruction and death to millions of innocent civilians. As an organization committed to the protection of human rights, we strongly expressed in clear terms the horrors we have seen by the bombardment of cities like Mariupol and Kharkiv, the destruction of hospitals and schools, the...