Foreign Policy: US Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo Is On His Way To Minsk

The visit is scheduled for January.

Early next year, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will pay an official visit to Belarus. This has been reported by Foreign Policy (translated by tut.by).

Pompeo's visit is scheduled for January. This will be the first visit of U.S. Secretary of State in the history of independent Belarus, but not the first high-level visit in the last six months. We remind that John Bolton, the U.S. presidential adviser on national security, visited Minsk in August.

"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is going to follow his example and visit Minsk in January. Belarus, called "Europe's last dictatorship," expelled the U.S. ambassador in 2008 after Washington had imposed its sanctions for violating human rights. But now it's expected that the United States will restore diplomatic relations with Belarus - sending the ambassador to Minsk for the first time in more than a decade - even despite the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to subordinate it," - Foreign Policy writes.

The visit will take place against the backdrop of an unprecedented crisis in relations between Belarus and Russia, which insists on "deepening integration" within the "union state," euroradio.fm notes.