What changed
The adopted text adds demands for sanctions on Belarusian officials and asset confiscation, while removing a reference to US funding cuts. #1#2#3
3 changes of substance. 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.
The changes to the text itself, in document order. Cover page, citations (“having regard to …”), standard resolution paragraphs and punctuation-only edits are left out — they are in “Show every difference”.
Change #1 Substance
Drops the reference to US funding cuts affecting Belarus's civil society and free media.
F. whereas Belarusian state media dominates the information landscape; whereas US funding cuts have severely affected Belarus’s civil society and free media;
Change #2 Substance
Adds a call for immediate personal sanctions on all members of the Belarusian Investigative Committee and other complicit officials.
5. Welcomes the sanctions on the President Property Management Directorate and the Central Election Commission, which issued politically motivated judgments; urges the immediate imposition of personal sanctions on all members of the Belarusian Investigative Committee and officials from other state institutions complicit in the transnational persecution and intimidation of Belarusian citizens;
Change #3 Substance
Adds a new paragraph advocating a legal mechanism to freeze and confiscate assets of Lukashenka and his inner circle for a victims' fund.
6. Strongly advocates the swift development and enforcement of a legal mechanism to identify, freeze and confiscate all assets and property outside Belarus owned by Lukashenka and his inner circle, with a view to reallocating them to a fund supporting victims of repression;