This written declaration does not reflect the position of the Assembly; only of those members that have signed it. It will not be considered further by the Assembly.
The undersigned condemn the fraud elections, the arrests following
the fraud elections and all other signs of lack of respect for human
rights by the Belarusian authorities. They call on all member states
of the Council of Europe:
to
condemn the violence after the elections and also to label the elections
as fraud, not to recognise the results and ask for new elections
in Belarus ;
to review the bilateral relationships with the Belarusian
authorities, including installing a list of Belarusian people who
are responsible for the elections and the lack of respect for human
rights and who will not be allowed to enter the member states;
to install smart economic sanctions to the Belarusian
regime and the Belarusian country as long as it does not respect
human rights and to use the 12 conditions checklist - on which the
European Commission bases its relation with Belarus, as stated in
the document “What the European Union could bring to Belarus”, November
2006 - and new elections as the basis to be fulfilled by Belarus
before sanctions can be ended;
to increase the level of sanctions on a regular basis
if the Belarusian regime does not apply to all 12 conditions and
holds new elections;
to co-ordinate the sanctions taken in order for them to
be most effective and least damaging to the citizens of Belarus.
