Minsk Wages Diplomatic War on Multiple Fronts
Minsk Wages Diplomatic War on Multiple Fronts Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 58 Belarusian Embassy in Warsaw On April 4, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka proposed to “optimize” the number of Belarusian embassies and their staff around the world. Essentially, the Belarusian leader declared, if Belarus’s “diplomatic presence” in some countries has no “prospects” because of a minuscule volume of mutual trade and/or because those countries are hostile to Belarus, then the latter should limit or eliminate its diplomatic staff in their capitals. In fact, that proc...