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Second day of the Warsaw Summit
René van der Linden, Parliamentary Assembly President: ''Council of Europe has a crucial role to play in European Architecture of tomorrow ''
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Terry Davis, Council of Europe Secretary General: ''This Summit will go into history as the Summit of European Unity''
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Giovanni Di Stasi, President of the Congress: One of the essential principles of local democracy is subsidiarity
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Alvaro Gil Robles, Commissioner for Human Rights: Human rights problems must be solved through constant dialogue with national authorities
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First day of the Warsaw Summit
Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of the Republic of Poland: ''Europe has heritage, Europe has identity, Europe has people whom we can be proud of. The Council of Europe must go further along the path of dialogue''.
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René van der Linden , Parliamentary Assembly President: ''We will not find any better instrument to strengthen the unity of Europe based on common values, than the Council of Europe''
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Terry Davis, Secretary General: ''I believe that the Council IS the future. The Europe of the future is a united Europe – a unity based on the values of democracy, human rights and the rule of law''
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Giovanni Di Stasi , President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe : ''our democracies are plainly undergoing a crisis of change which we can see in the upsurge of extremist movements''.
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Luzius Wildhaber , President of the European Court of Human Rights: ''The European Court of Human Rights is more than just another European institution; it is a symbol. As no other institution it symbolises an essential part of European legal culture.''.
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16.05.2005 - First Plenary Session: ''European unity-European values''
List of speeches (chronological order)

Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway
Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
José Sócrates, Prime Minister of Portugal
Tarja Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland
Recep Tayyjp Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey
His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco
Heinz Fischer, Federal President of Austria
Vladimir Voronin, President of the Republic of Moldova
Valdas Adankus, President of Lithuania
Ivo Sanader, Prime Minister of Croatia
Samuel Schmid, President of Switzerland
Robert Kocharian, President of Armenia
Marc Forné Molné, Head of Government of Andorra
Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic
Per Stig Mřller, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Michel Barnier, Foreign Affairs Minister of France
Sergey Lavrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs for the Russian Federation
Miguel Angel Moratinos, Foreign Affairs Minister of Spain
Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, Secretary for State Relations – Holy See
Vicente Fox Quesada, President of Mexico
Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Commissioner for External relations and European neighbourhood policy
Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada
Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan
16.05.2005 - Second Plenary Session: ''Challenges for the European Society''
Luzius Wildhaber, President of the European Court of Human Rights
Marek Belka, Prime Minister of Poland
Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of the Republic of Latvia
Traian Basescu, President of Romania
Svétovar Marovic, President of Serbia and Montenegro
Arnold Rüütel, President of Estonia
Kostas Karamanlis, Prime Minister of Greece
Otmar Hasler, Prime Minister of the Liechtenstein
Janez Jansa, Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia
Fausta Simona Morganti, Captain Regent of San Marino
Lawrence Gonzi, Prime Minister of Malta
John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Gianfranco Fini, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Italy
Laila Freivalds, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Giovanni Lajolo, Giovanni lajolo, Secretary for State Relations – Holy See
Giovanni di Stasi, President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
17.05.2005 -Third Plenary Session : ''European Architecture ''

Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Commissioner for External relations and European neighbourhood policy
Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Branko Crvenkovski, President of "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
Ivan Gašparovic, President of the Slovak Republic
Borislav Paravac, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Samuel Schmid, President of Switzerland
Tassos Papadopoulos, President of Cyprus
Gerhard Schröder, Federal Chancellor of Germany
David Oddsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland
Sergey Lavrov Minister for Foreign Affairsof the Russian Federation
Juli Minoves Triquell, Minister for External Affairs of Andorra
Alfred Moisiu, President of Albania
René van der Linden, Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly President
Giovanni di Stasi, President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
Vaira Vike–Freiberga, Special Representative of Secretary General of the United Nations, President of Latvia
Annelise Oeschger, Chairman of the INGO Conference Committee
Renaldas Vaisbrodas, President of the European Youth Forum
Bertie Ahern, Prime Minister of Ireland
Dermot Ahern, Foreign Minister of Ireland and Envoy of the UN Secretary-General
Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Poland
Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Portugal
Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of the Republic of Poland (at the opening of the Third Session of the Summit)
Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of the Republic of Poland (at the closing of the deliberations Summit)


Reference speeches on the eve of the Summit
Adam D. Rotfeld, President of the Committee of Ministers
Speech - Strasbourg, April 2005
René van der Linden, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Speech - Luxembourg, May 2005
Terry Davis, Secretary General
Speech - Oslo, Sept 2004
Michel Barnier, French Minister for Foreign Affairs
Speech - Strasbourg, Jan 2005
Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Statement - Warsaw, July 2004
Jan Truszczynski, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Poland
Speech - Strasbourg, Jan 2005