A/HRC/RES/52/29 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 12 April 2023 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-second session 27 February–4 April 2023 Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 4 April 2023 52/29. Situation of human rights in Belarus in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election and in its aftermath The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other applicable human rights instruments, Recalling all resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights, the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights in Belarus, including Council resolutions 49/26 of 1 April 2022 and 50/20 of 8 July 2022, and all relevant statements made by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office of the Secretary-General and special procedure mandate holders of the Human Rights Council on the deteriorating situation of human rights in Belarus, Recalling also the report of the rapporteur of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, appointed under the Moscow Mechanism, invoked with regard to credible reports of human rights violations during the presidential election of 9 August 2020 in Belarus, and the recommendations contained therein, and the invocation of the Vienna Mechanism on 4 November 2021 in relation to serious human rights violations in Belarus, Reaffirming its commitment to the sovereignty and independence of Belarus, and reaffirming also that it is the responsibility of each State to promote, respect, protect and fulfil human rights in accordance with its obligations under international human rights law, Regretting the inadequate response and lack of cooperation by the Belarusian authorities to the requests made by the Human Rights Council in the above-mentioned resolutions and by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and also to the recommendations made in the report under the Moscow Mechanism of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and to its Vienna Mechanism, 1. Welcomes the interim oral update on the situation of human rights in Belarus presented by the United Nations Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-first session and the comprehensive report presented by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Council at its current session;1 1 A/HRC/52/68. GE.23-06770(E)