The Belarusian diplomatic mission says they see no sense in such a bloated staff of U.S. diplomats against the backdrop of deteriorating relations between the two countries
In a statement by Belarusian Foreign Ministry spokesman Anatoly Glaz, released on Wednesday, it is said that the Belarusian Foreign Ministry proposed to the U.S. side to reduce the number of the U.S. embassy in Minsk to five people.
“Against the background of Washington’s actions to reduce cooperation in all spheres and economic strangulation of our country, we quite objectively do not see the point in the presence of so many American diplomatic staff in Belarus. It is simply not clear what they have to do against such a background. In this regard, the U.S. side is offered to reduce the number of its embassy personnel in Minsk to five people by September 1”, – stated in the message after a meeting at the Foreign Ministry with Charge d’Affaires to the U.S. in Belarus Ruben Harutyunyan.