"In a situation where freedoms of speech, assembly and association are curtailed, opposition political parties are dissolved and their leaders and members are persecuted, freedom of the media is not respected, no credible domestic and international electoral observation is allowed, and there is no redress against these violations, there cannot be free and fair elections. The Assembly, therefore, regards the parliamentary elections to be held by the Lukashenka regime in February 2024 as another travesty of democracy, allowing the authorities to perpetuate their grip on power despite the real will of the Belarusian people, and announces that it will not recognise the results."