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What changed between the resolution motion joint and the adopted text
From · resolution motion joint· 17 Oct 2025
on the situation in Belarus, five years after the fraudulent presidential elections
To · adopted text· 22 Oct 2025
Situation in Belarus, five years after the fraudulent presidential elections
AI:What changed, in short
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.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 a statement that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was the legitimate winner of the 2020 election and that Lukashenka unlawfully clung to power.
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Changed: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
AI summary:Changes the request from allowing exiled Belarusian citizens to issue provisional documents to assisting them in obtaining provisional documents.
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Changed:24. Calls for the EU and the individual Member States to further formalise the representation of Belarusian democratic forces within the EU by supporting them in opening offices across European capitals and allowingin themorder to issueassist provisionalexiled documentsBelarusian tocitizens exiledin Belarusianobtaining citizens;provisional documents;
1 formal change: legal basis, citations, references, corrections
Change 4 Formal
AI summary:Updates the title of the Vice-President to "Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union".
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Changed:25. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Vice-President of the UnionCommission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the relevant EU institutions, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Council of Europe, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the representatives of Belarusian democratic forces and the Belarusian de facto authorities.
1 change of wording only
Change 1 Wording
AI summary:Replaces the decimal separator in "2.5" with a comma and rephrases the sentence about Andrzej Poczobut's Sakharov Prize status.
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Changed:I. whereas at least five political prisoners are still being held incommunicado, namely Viktar Babaryka, Maksim Znak, Uladzimir Kniha, Aliaksandr Aranovich and Mikalai Statkevich; whereas Maria Kalesnikava was long held incommunicado, with a letter from her recently reaching the outside world for the first time in 2.52,5 years; whereas Andrzej Poczobut, a journalist and a member of the Union of Poles in Belarus, who has serious health problems, was sentenced to multiple years in prison and remains imprisoned under harsh conditions, in an isolation cell; whereas Andrzej Poczobut is one of thehas finalistsbeen forawarded Parliament’s 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought; whereas Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski is being subjected to forced labour and punishments while imprisoned, while being denied essential medical care;