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REPORT on relations with Belarus
2023/07/31
Committee: AFET
Dossiers: 2023/2041(INI)
Documents: PDF(211 KB) DOC(83 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS', 'mepid': 124766}]

Amendments (8)

Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the Lukashenka regime is dangerously undermining the sovereignty of Belarus by deepening Belarus’ integration intoRussia and Belarus are two sovereign states which have signed a number of cooperation agreements in various fields under the Union State with Russia;
2023/06/08
Committee: AFET
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas the Belarusian authorities actively support and have become accomplices in Russia’s unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine;deleted
2023/06/08
Committee: AFET
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas the Lukashenka regime may poses a direct threat to the EU and its citizens by continuing to instrumentalise migration, accepting the deployment ofpeace and security if it deploys Russian tactical nuclear weapons on its territory and refusinges to implement nuclear safety requirements at the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Astravyets;
2023/06/08
Committee: AFET
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Reiterates that the Lukashenka regime’s unilateral withdrawal froCalls on the European Union to engage in a process of critical thought and reform the Eastern Partnership policy, announced on 28 Januparticularly 2021, has no legitimacy as it does not rein view of the rising number of confleict the true will of the Belarusian peoples in these countries;
2023/06/08
Committee: AFET
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the EU institutions and its Member States to explore the possibility of allowing representatives of the Belarusian democratic forces and civil society to take up the empty seats, in bilateral and multilateral formats, in particular within the framework of the Eastern Partnership policy, which were previously occupied by representatives of the Belarusian authorities;deleted
2023/06/08
Committee: AFET
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Call for the EU and its Member States to broaden and strengthen the scope of sanctions (‘restrictive measures’) against individuals and legal entities responsible for or complicit in grave human rights violations in Belarus under the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Mechanisms (EU Magnitsky Act), including judges, prosecutors, law enforcement, prison and penal colony officials, and agents of the infamous KGB and GUBOPiK; insists that Belarusian potash, which is the main source of the regime’s income, should remain on the list of sanctions; urges the EU and its Member States to increase their capacity to assess the real effect of sanctions in order to ensure their full implementation and to thwart any circumvention schemes;deleted
2023/06/08
Committee: AFET
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Notes with great concern the rampant economic, political and military integration of Belarus into the Union State with Russia; condemns the announced deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons under Russian command on Belarusian territory; calls for the EU and the Member States to maintain unity in addressing the multifaceted threats posed by the Lukashenka regime to the EU, in particular the continued state-engineered illegal migration crisis at the borders of Belarus with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, and to work in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency to ensure nuclear safety at the Belarusian NPP;
2023/06/08
Committee: AFET
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for the EU, its institutions and its Member States to develop a more ambitious and comprehensive strategy in order to support democratic forces, civil society activists, independent trade unions and free media both in and outside Belarus; calls for improved EU communication with the people in Belarus in order to provide them with information and counter disinformation and propaganda by the state-controlled media; urges the EU Member States to coordinate their actions in order to alleviate the difficulties faced by democratic forces and civil society activists in exile, for example in the process of obtaining residence permits or opening bank accounts. Calls, lastly, for channels of communication with the Belarusian authorities to be kept open to address shared challenges, and urges in particular that they work together with EU Member States to reduce the transport of weapons and other forms of collaboration in the war in Ukraine and use their role in the region to promote a diplomatic peace agreement;
2023/06/08
Committee: AFET