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From · resolution motion joint · 17 Oct 2025 RC-10-2025-0451 on the situation in Belarus, five years after the fraudulent presidential elections
To · Adopted text · 22 Oct 2025 TA-10-2025-0249 Situation in Belarus, five years after the fraudulent presidential elections
✦ In short · AI narration of the differences below, generated 4 Sept 2026

Adds a statement that Tsikhanouskaya legitimately won the 2020 election and that Lukashenka unlawfully held power. #2 Changes the request on provisional documents from allowing issuance to assisting exiled Belarusian citizens in obtaining them. #3 The other changes are formal or wording: a decimal separator, a rephrased sentence, and an updated title. #1#4

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Change #2 Substance

Adds a statement that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was the legitimate winner of the 2020 election and that Lukashenka unlawfully clung to power.

4. Reiterates that it does not recognise Aliaksandr Lukashenka as the legitimate president of BelarusBelarus; recalls the widespread evidence and numerous testimonies indicating that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election, while the Lukashenka regime unlawfully clung to power and refused to acknowledge her victory; reaffirms its support for the Belarusian democratic forces led by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and for the democratic aspirations of the Belarusian people; calls for the EU and its Member States to work with non-EU countries to strengthen the policy of the non-recognition of Lukashenka as Belarus’s president; stresses the importance of sustained EU engagement with Belarusian democratic actors, ensuring that their efforts have political, financial and security support;

Change #3 Substance

Changes the request from allowing exiled Belarusian citizens to issue provisional documents to assisting them in obtaining provisional documents.

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