The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,

Referring to the case of Mr. Victor Gonchar, a member of the Thirteenth Supreme Soviet of Belarus who disappeared in September 1999, as outlined in the report of the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians (CL/183/12(b)-R.1), and to the resolution adopted at its 182nd session (April 2008),

Noting that legislative elections took place in Belarus on 28 September 2008,

Requests the Committee to contact the newly elected parliamentary authorities and to report to it at its next session (April 2009) in the light of any new information it may have obtained in the meantime.

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