HRC61 - EU Statement - Item 4 | EEAS 5 of 9 https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/un-geneva/hrc61-eu-statement... violations of due process and the right to a fair trial. The EU urges the Belarusian authorities to halt their internal as well as transnational repression and to adhere to the country’s international obligations to respect, protect and fulfil human rights. The EU urges the Belarusian authorities to abolish the death penalty, and, as a first step, to introduce a moratorium. The EU calls on the Belarusian authorities to engage in a genuine and inclusive dialogue with all elements of society. We urge the Belarusian authorities to cooperate fully with international and regional human rights monitoring mechanisms. The EU remains committed to support all efforts towards accountability and to the victims’ rights to reparation, truth, and guarantees of non-recurrence. The EU demands that the Belarusian authorities stop their involvement in Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and halt their instrumentalisation of migrants for political purposes, in complicity with Russia. The EU supports the work of the Special Rapporteur and the Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus. The EU condemns all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian territory. The EU welcomed the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2803. The EU continues to stress the need for rapid, safe and unimpeded delivery and sustained distribution of humanitarian aid at scale into and throughout Gaza. Israel must fully comply with its obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law. The EU continues to call on all parties to facilitate full and unimpeded humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, including through the full opening of crossing points, to respond to the urgent needs of the population, and urge for aid to be effectively distributed in accordance with international law, including by UN agencies, notably UNRWA, international organisations and NGOs. The EU calls on Israel not to implement the NGO registration law in its current form and stresses the need for the UN and its agencies, and humanitarian organisations, to be able to fulfil their mandate independently and impartially without restrictions. The EU continues to support the Commission of Inquiry and other relevant OHCHR mandates. The EU strongly condemns the further escalation following massive increase of settler violence against Palestinian civilians, and the policies of intimidation and forcible displacement and threats of annexation, in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as well as the terrorist attacks against Israel. The EU calls on the Government of Israel to reverse the expansion of settlements, which are illegal under international law, to refrain from any annexation and to hold the violent settlers accountable. The EU remains firmly committed to international law and to a comprehensive, just, and lasting peace based on the two-state solution in accordance with relevant UN Security Council Resolutions where two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, live side-by-side in peace within secure and recognised borders, and supports diplomatic efforts in this 25/03/2026, 16:51