The Assembly urges the Committee of Ministers to call on Council
of Europe member States to:
2.1 use
their political and diplomatic leverage to convince the Belarusian
authorities to take the relevant legislative initiatives to bring
domestic law into conformity with internationally recognised human rights
standards and to co-operate effectively with the Council of Europe,
the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE),
and the European Union as well as with United Nations bodies;
2.2 align themselves on the European Union regime of targeted
sanctions until the release and full rehabilitation of all political
prisoners, and urge the Belarusian authorities to end the crackdown
on political opponents;
2.3 further develop channels of communication with representatives
of Belarusian civil society, independent media and opposition forces;
2.4 consider revising international and bilateral mechanisms
of information exchange with a view to preventing data misuse by
the Belarusian authorities;
2.5 consider reducing or eliminating entry visa fees for Belarusian
citizens;
2.6 continue to open universities and offer scholarship programmes
to young Belarusian students, and establish links with the European
Humanities University in exile in Vilnius, and with the Council
of Europe School of Political Studies, also in exile in Kiev.
