A/HRC/45/L.8 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: Limited 18 September 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-fifth session 14 September–7 October 2020 Agenda item 1 Organizational and procedural matters Russian Federation:* amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/45/L.1 45/… Situation of human rights in Belarus in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election and in its aftermath After the third preambular paragraph, insert a new preambular paragraph reading Welcoming the ongoing cooperation between the Government of Belarus and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and other relevant United Nations bodies and mechanisms, * State not a member of the Human Rights Council. GE.20-12088(E) 