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In December 1920, the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs was established by resolution of the Second Congress of Soviets of Belarus. With the 1922 formation of the USSR, the functions of representing the Soviet republics in the international arena passed into the national jurisdiction.
In 2009, he was appointed deputy foreign minister of Belarus in charge of bilateral relations with African, Asian and South American countries with specific task to widen Belarusian diplomatic relations. [2] During his term in office, he established diplomatic relations with Nigeria, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Brazil. [3]
Following the 2020 Belarusian presidential election, Ryzhenkov was added to the various sanctions lists, first by the Baltic states in late August 2020, [4] [5] then by the European Union, [6] the United Kingdom, [7] and Canada [8] in June 2021, and shortly thereafter by Switzerland, [9] and several EU-aligned countries.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday reshuffled his top officials in what observers saw as part of maneuvering ahead of the 2025 presidential election. Lukashenko, who has ruled the ...
He rose through the ranks to become Minister Counsellor, embassy of the Republic of Belarus in the Kingdom of Belgium from 2007 to 2012. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2015, he became Permanent Representative of Belarus to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva (Swiss Confederation) and served until March 2022 when he became ...
Vladimir Vladimirovich Makei (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Макей; Belarusian: Уладзі́мір Уладзі́міравіч Маке́й, romanized: Uladzimir Uladzimiravič Makiej; 5 August 1958 – 26 November 2022) was a Belarusian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus from 2012 until ...
Belarus’ foreign minister arrived in North Korea on Tuesday as experts predicted that he and North Korean officials would discuss forming a trilateral anti-Western front also involving Russia.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu reviewed live-fire exercises in western Belarus on Thursday, part of a surge of military activity close to Ukraine. Russia, in its biggest ...