Part I, covering Russia, Transcaucasia and Central Asia, is distributed simultaneously as a second document. Representatives of a large cross-section of parties opposed to President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's regime met for a second round table on 28 August, Russian Public TV and AFP reported. They asked the president to abolish 16 decrees found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court. They added that if he did not do so by 15 September, he would face possible impeachment. Among the parties represented at the round table were the Agrarians, Communists, Social Democrats, and United Civic Party.
Parliament can impeach the president by a two-thirds majority vote.
The parties also said that they were ready to hold an alternative referendum to Lukashenka's 7 November ballot and that they favored creating a commission to look into the financial activities of the president's administration. Shopkeepers and traders in Minsk stopped doing business on 27 August in reaction to President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's latest decrees on trade, Russian and Western agencies reported the following day. Many said the new levy will force them out of business. A reactor at Lithuania's Ignalina nuclear power station was shut down on 27 August after a leak was discovered, Reuters reported. Because its other reactor was recently shut down for routine maintenance, the plant has been temporarily closed.