What changed

From · resolution motion joint · 20 Jan 2025 RC-10-2025-0055 on the need for actions to address the continued oppression and fake elections in Belarus

To · Adopted text · 22 Jan 2025 TA-10-2025-0002 Need for actions to address the continued oppression and fake elections in Belarus

✦ In short · AI narration of the differences below, generated 4 Sept 2026

Adds two names to the list of political prisoners and expands sanctions to cover income sources like potash exports. #2 #3 The other changes are formal or wording: updated media list and rephrased migration description. #1 #4

2 changes of substance, plus 1 formaland1 wording-only. Each change below carries a one-line ✦ note from the same model. Written from the two texts only — read the highlighted passages before relying on it.

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Change #2 Substance

Adds Volha Brytsikava and Aliaksandr Kapshul to the list of political prisoners mentioned.

5. Expresses grave concern about the situation of political prisoners, including Maria Kalesnikava, Siarhei Tsikhanouski, Ales Bialiatski, Mikalai Statkevich, Mikalai Khila, Valiantsin Stefanovich, Maksim Znak, Viktar Babaryka, Ihar Losik, Andrzej Poczobut, Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk, Uladzimir Matskevich, Marfa Rabkova, Uladzimir Labkovich, Aliaksandr Yarashuk, Volha Brytsikava, Aliaksandr Kapshul, Yana Pinchuk, Mikalai Bankou, Andrei Navitski, Henrykh Akalatovich, Uladzimir Kniha Dmitry Kuchuk, Pavel Seviarynets and others, many of whom are facing severe health issues without access to proper medical care, and are enduring isolation, ill treatment and torture;

Change #3 Substance

Adds a call to address main income sources of the regime, such as potash and fertilizer exports, and rephrases closing loopholes.

15. Urges the EU and its international partners to broaden and strengthen sanctions against individuals and entities responsible for the repression in Belarus and for Belarus’s participation in Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, while closing sanctions ~~loopholes;~~loopholes and addressing the main sources of income financing the regime, such as exports of potash and other fertilisers; calls for the EU to sanction Belarusian entities and individuals responsible for the forced labour of political prisoners, as well as the goods produced using such forced labour;