Duda’s chief of staff, Krzysztof Szczerski, said the Polish president made his appeal in a letter which would be sent on Wednesday.
Polish state news agency PAP cited Duda as saying in his letter that the attention of the international community should be drawn to the deteriorating human rights situation in Belarus and the “escalation of repression” against demonstrators contesting the announced results of the country's presidential elections.
The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations made up of 47 states and responsible for the protection of human rights around the globe.
Meanwhile, the European Union has declared that the contested Belarus presidential vote in which strongman Alexander Lukashenko appeared to secure another landslide re-election victory was "neither free nor fair."
Earlier this week, the foreign ministers of Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine called on the authorities in Belarus to refrain from using force amid protests in that country as the opposition accused Lukashenko of rigging his re-election victory.
Official results handed Lukashenko, in power for more than a quarter of a century, an 80 percent share of the vote in Sunday's election, while Svetlana Tikhanouskaya, Lukashenko's main electoral opponent, took around 10 percent.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has called for a special summit of EU leaders to focus on Belarus.
Earlier, the presidents of Poland and Lithuania urged the Belarusian authorities to uphold “basic democratic standards.”
Poland’s foreign ministry has voiced “grave concern about the brutal pacification” of demonstrations in Belarus.
(pk)
Source: PAP