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What changed between the resolution motion joint and the adopted text
From · resolution motion joint· 20 Jan 2025
on the need for actions to address the continued oppression and fake elections in Belarus
To · adopted text· 22 Jan 2025
Need for actions to address the continued oppression and fake elections in Belarus
AI:What changed, in short
Adds two names to the list of political prisoners and expands sanctions to cover income sources like potash exports.23 The other changes are formal or wording: updated media list and rephrased migration description.14
2 changes of substance · 1 formal · 1 of wording only
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Changes to the text itself, in document order. Cover page, citations and punctuation-only edits are left out; they are under “Every difference”.
Changes of substance · 2
Change 2 Substance
AI summary:Adds Volha Brytsikava and Aliaksandr Kapshul to the list of political prisoners mentioned.
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Changed: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
AI summary:Adds a call to address main income sources of the regime, such as potash and fertilizer exports, and rephrases closing loopholes.
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Changed: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;
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Change 1 Formal
AI summary:Updates the list of independent media outlets by adding Nasha Niva and correcting punctuation.
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Changed:K. whereas the Belarusian regime employs anti-extremism laws to obstruct media outlets, whereby most independent media have been labelled as ‘extremist’, with at least 45 media representatives detained, around 400 in exile and others facing harassment and mistreatment; whereas independent media, such as Belsat TV, Charter 97, Nexta, Radio Racyja, Radio SvabodaSvaboda, Nasha Niva and others, play a crucial role in providing essential information and serving as a platform for democratic voices; whereas the Belarusian authorities employ surveillance, online censorship and disinformation, escalating digital authoritarianism and undermining the prospects for free and fair elections in 2025; whereas Belarusian propagandists regularly spread disinformation about EU Member States and their officials and suppress access to information;
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Change 4 Wording
AI summary:Replaces 'use' with 'weaponisation and instrumentalisation' regarding migration.
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Changed:19. Strongly condemns the Lukashenka regime’s useweaponisation and instrumentalisation of migration to destabilise neighbouring EU Member States through orchestrated irregular flows, violating human rights, exploiting vulnerable individuals and threatening regional stability; calls for the EU and its Member States to work on a coordinated response to counter this hybrid threat while protecting EU external borders and protecting the rights and safety of vulnerable individuals;