34th SESSION
CG34(2018)PV01pmprov
MINUTES
First sitting (continued)
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Tuesday 27 March 2018 14.00 – 19.00, Hemicycle |
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Plenary Sitting |
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Anders KNAPE, 1st Vice-President of the Congress, took the chair at 14.02 |
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Exchange of views with Karl-Heinz LAMBERTZ, President of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), and signature of a revised co-operation agreement between the CoR and the Congress Gudrun MOSLER-TÖRNSTRÖM, President of the Congress, and Karl-Heinz LAMBERTZ, President of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), made presentations and signed the revised co-operation agreement between the Committee of the Regions and the Congress. The debate was opened. Speakers: Carla DEJONGHE, Belgium (R, ILDG); Antje GROTHEER, Germany (R, SOC); Xavier CADORET, France (L, SOC); Ruiz Manuel GARCIA, Spain (youth delegate); Gunn Marit HELGESEN, Norway (R, EPP/CCE); Thomas ANDERSSON, Sweden (R, ILDG); Hasan, AKGUN, Turkey (L, SOC); Andreas GALSTER, Germany (L, EPP/CCE); Lokman ERTURK, Turkey (R, EPP/CCE); Halldor HALLDORSSON, Iceland (L, ECR); Heather McVEY, United Kingdom (L, SOC); Darko MRVALJEVIC, Montenegro (R, SOC); Peter JOHN, United Kingdom (L, SOC); Irene DOUROU, Greece (R, SOC); Emin YERITSYAN, Armenia (L, EPP/CCE); Lucia KROON, Netherlands (L, EPP/CCE). The debate was closed. Karl-Heinz LAMBERTZ and Gudrun MOSLER-TÖRNSTRÖM replied to the debate. |
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Fact-finding mission on the situation of local elected representatives in the Republic of Moldova The co-rapporteurs Marc COOLS, Belgium (L, ILDG), and Gunn Marit HELGESEN, Norway (R, EPP/CCE), presented the report contained in Document CG34(2018)09, on behalf of the Monitoring Committee. The debate was opened. |
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Speakers: Jakob WIENEN, Netherlands (L, EPP/CCE); Tatiana BADAN, Republic of Moldova (L, ILDG); Francis LEC, France (L, SOC); Constantin COJOCARI, Republic of Moldova (L, SOC); Vsevolod BELIKOV, Russian Federation (L, EPP/CCE); Gheorghe RAILEANU, Republic of Moldova (L, EPP/CCE); Frank ZIMMERMANN, Germany (R, SOC); Maria MOGILDEA, Moldova (youth delegate). The debate was closed. The co-rapporteurs and Leendert VERBEEK, Netherlands (R, SOC), chair of the committee, replied to the debate. The Congress proceeded to vote on the draft recommendation contained in Document CG34(2018)09. The draft recommendation was adopted. |
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Gudrun MOSLER-TÖRNSTRÖM, President of the Congress, took the Chair at 15.56. |
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Statement by Michele NICOLETTI, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe The President welcomed Michele NICOLETTI, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and invited him to address the Congress. Michele NICOLETTI made a statement to the Congress and answered oral questions from the following members of the Congress: Marc COOLS, Belgium (L, ILDG); Yoomi RENSTRÖM, Sweden (R, SOC); Andrew DAWSON, United Kingdom (R, ECR); Svetlana GORYACHEVA, Russian Federation (R, SOC); Clemens LAMMERSKITTEN, Germany (L, EPP/CCE); Franz Xaver GRUBER, Austria (L, EPP/CCE); Nevzat DOGAN, Turkey (L, EPP/CCE); Elsa HÖÖK, Sweden (youth delegate); Petro PRYHARA, Ukraine (R, SOC). The debate was closed. The President thanked Michele NICOLETTI. |
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Promoting human rights at local and regional level Harald BERGMANN, Netherlands (L, ILDG), Congress Spokesperson on Human Rights at Local and Regional Level, presented the report contained in Document CG34(2018)10, on behalf of the Monitoring Committee. The President welcomed: - Nils MUIŽNIEKS, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe; and Nils MUIŽNIEKS and Roland-François WEIL made a statement. The President of the Congress thanked the guest speakers and opened the debate. |
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Speakers: Michael ANGELOPOULOS, Greece (L, EPP/CCE); Gunn Marit HELGESEN, Norway (R, EPP/CCE); Vsevolod BELIKOV, Russian Federation (L, EPP/CCE); Jakob WIENEN, Netherlands (L, EPP/CCE); Thomas ANDERSSON, Sweden (R, ILDG); John WARMISHAM, United Kingdom (L, SOC); Artur TORRES PEREIRA, Portugal (L, EPP/CCE; Marianne HOLLINGER, Switzerland (L, ILDG); Nawel RAFIK-ELMRINI, France (L, SOC); Hasan AKGUN, Turkey (L, SOC); Pascale Emily JURENEC, Slovenia (youth delegate); Volodymyr PROKOPIV, Ukraine (L, EPP/CCE); Andreas GALSTER, Germany (L, EPP/CCE); Christina McKELVIE, United Kingdom (R, NR); George MELASHVILI, Georgia (youth delegate); Irene DOUROU, Greece (R, SOC); Andrew DISMORE, United Kingdom (R, SOC); Frank ZIMMERMANN, Germany (R, SOC); Xavier CADORET, France (L, SOC); Ayse Serra BUCAK, Turkey (R, SOC); Bartlomiej SORDYL, Poland (youth delegate). |
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Gunn Marit HELGESEN, 2nd Vice-President of the Congress, took the Chair at 18.02 |
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The debate was closed. Roland-François WEIL, Nils MUIŽNIEKS, Harald BERGMANN, rapporteur, and Leendert VERBEEK, Netherlands (R, SOC), Chair of the Monitoring Committee, replied to the debate. The Congress proceeded to vote on the draft resolution contained in Document CG34(2018)10 and on 6 amendments contained in Document CG34(2018)10AMDT. Amendment 1 was presented by Harold BERGMANN. The chair of the committee was in favour. The Amendment was adopted. Amendment 4 was presented by Harold BERGMANN. The chair of the committee was in favour. The Amendment was adopted and, as a result, Amendment 3 fell. Amendment 5 was presented by Anna MAGYAR, Hungary (R, EPP/CCE). The rapporteur and the chair of the committee were in favour. The Amendment was adopted. Amendment 2 was presented by Harold BERGMANN. The chair of the committee was in favour. The Amendment was adopted. Amendment 6 was presented by Anna MAGYAR. The rapporteur and the chair of the committee were not in favour. The amendment was not adopted. The draft resolution, as amended, was adopted. |
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Local and regional democracy in Latvia The co-rapporteurs Xavier CADORET, France (L, SOC), and Marc COOLS, Belgium (L, ILDG), presented the report contained in Document CG34(2018)11, on behalf of the Monitoring Committee. The debate was opened. Speakers: Michail ANGELOPOULOS, Greece (L, EPP/CCE); Gints KAMINSKIS, Latvia, (L, ILDG); Eva LENNUK, Estonia (youth delegate); Aleksey OSTROVSKY, Russian Federation (R, ILDG); Samanta BERGA, Latvia (youth delegate). The debate was closed. |
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The co-rapporteurs replied to the debate. The Congress proceeded to vote on the draft recommendation contained in Document CG34(2018)11, and on Amendment 1 contained in Document CG34(2018)11AMDT. Amendment 1 was presented by Gints KAMINSKIS, Latvia (L, ILDG). The co-rapporteurs and Leendert VERBEEK, chair of the committee, were in favour. The Amendment was adopted. The draft recommendation, as amended, was adopted. The President of the Congress welcomed Jānis EGLĪTS, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development, Latvia, who made a statement and answered written questions [Document CG34(2018)21] from the following members of Congress: Halldór HALLDÓRSSON, Iceland (L, ECR), Artur TORRES PEREIRA, Portugal (L, EPP/CCE), Elena PERMINOVA, Russian Federation (R, ILDG); Valentina SYROVA, Russian Federation (L, ILDG). The debate was closed. The President thanked the Parliamentary Secretary. |
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End of the sitting The next sitting of the Congress would be on Wednesday 28 March 2018 at 14.00. The sitting was closed at 19.08. |
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