US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will pay an official visit to Belarus. The official visit may take place already in January, the Foreign Policy reports.
The visit of Mike Pompeo, scheduled for January next year, will be the first visit of U.S. Secretary of State in the history of independent Belarus.
“Belarus, which has been referred to as “Europe’s last dictatorship,” expelled the U.S. ambassador in 2008 after Washington slapped sanctions on it over human rights abuses. But now, the United States is expected to revive diplomatic ties with Belarus— sending an ambassador to Minsk for the first time in over a decade— even as Russian President Vladimir Putin tries to subdue it,” Foreign Policy writes.
On August 29, now former U.S. presidential national security adviser John Bolton paid an official visit to Belarus. In Minsk, he met with Alyaksandr Lukashenka. The head of Belarus and the U.S. presidential advisor on national security spoke for more than two hours. Bolton called the meeting “very important,” although he and Lukashenka “did not come up with any specific solutions”.
