Starting the Plenary Session 2 with a video message from Abdulla Shahid, President of the UNGA, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Maldives: "Openness, transparency, participation and inclusion are the key ingredients to building the accountability and trust necessary for the functioning of democracies"
Then, Maria Mezentseva, Head of the Ukrainian parliamentary delegation to PACE declared: "European values have to be extended to ecological values which are relate to #humanrights".
Judit Varga, Minister of Justice of Hungary, citing a recent poll, said that "96 percent of Hungarians support strongly climate action in society."