12. As regards its own work, the Assembly:

12.1. resolves to further promote the participation of representatives of Belarusian democratic forces in its work so as to allow a representative delegation of Belarusian democratic forces to take an active role in any discussion taking place at the level of Assembly committees and networks during part-sessions, with the authorisation of the respective chairpersons, according to modalities to be established by the Bureau of the Assembly;

12.2. calls for the setting up of a General Rapporteur for a Democratic Belarus;

12.3. calls on the General Rapporteur for a Democratic Belarus, the General Rapporteur for political prisoners, the General Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, and the General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty to work closely together on Belarus and to establish a structured dialogue with the Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the United Transitional Cabinet, the Coordination Council and their respective structures;

12.4. decides to intensify its engagement with Belarusian civil society, human rights defenders, independent journalists, and academia;

12.5. commits to continue supporting the activities of the Council of Europe Contact Group on co-operation with Representatives of Belarusian democratic forces and civil society;

12.6. sets forth to revive dialogue and co-ordination with other international parliamentary assemblies with a view to supporting the Belarusian democratic forces and civil society and promoting a democratic future for Belarus;

12.7. will explore and support efforts to establish a network of parliamentary friendship groups of democratic Belarus;

12.8. reaffirms its support for political pluralism and encourages its political groups to engage with Belarusian democratic political parties;

12.9. invites Belarusian democratic forces to make use of the Assembly’s tools and expertise on the organisation of elections and on electoral processes;

12.10. notes the Urgent Interim Opinion on the Constitutional Reform in Belarus of 21 February 2022 of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission), and its comments on the Draft Constitution of Belarus elaborated by the Belarusian democratic forces, and encourages the Venice Commission, in line with its statute, to continue to provide its expertise on constitutional reform in Belarus and to co-operate further on strengthening the democratic forces’ capacity to address issues relating to legislation and judicial practice;

12.11. resolves to continue to follow the political situation in Belarus.

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