US and Belarus decide to restore diplomatic relations in full

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After more than 11-year break, Minsk and Washington restore diplomatic relations in full. Recall that in 2008, the authorities of the countries reduced the level of diplomatic contacts to the level of temporary attorneys.

US and Belarus decide to restore diplomatic relations in full




According to some reports, the United States of America initiated the return of ambassadors to their jobs. So, according to the deputy head of the US State Department, David Hale, who met with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, “US-Belarus relations are coming historical moment".

Hale said that he was pleased to participate in the mutual process of normalizing relations in full.

Recall that previously in Washington, Alexander Lukashenko was called the “last dictator of Europe”, various sanctions were imposed against Belarus, including sanctions for dispersing inconsistent demonstrations. Many sanctions measures are valid to this day.

Lukashenko at a meeting with Hale noted that Minsk and Washington are cooperating in various fields, but "it isn’t normal when in the modern world two states that once fought on the same side against the enemy today have such weak relations."

Earlier, in May 2019, memorandums were signed between Belarus and the States that open up options for cooperation in several areas, including cooperation between the Sledkom, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Belarusian Border Committee with the Drug Enforcement Agency of the US Department of Justice.

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    1. -3
      18 September 2019 06: 27
      "Batskin's" buttocks became cramped in one chair?
      Or a new lever for blackmailing Russia ?!
      1. -2
        18 September 2019 06: 35
        This applies only to Belarusians and Americans. And both will become easier in visa matters, for example. I do not understand why citizens of other states are so excited.
        1. +21
          18 September 2019 06: 44
          Quote: Thrall
          I do not understand why citizens of other states are so excited.

          Oh how! Thrall, why the hell are you here if our excitement so excites you?
          Ukrainians also jumped out problems on their own and on other people's asses.
          People reasonably worry.
          No one wants another Russophobe near by.
          1. +13
            18 September 2019 06: 58
            Quote: Vladimir16
            Quote: Thrall
            I do not understand why citizens of other states are so excited.

            Oh how! Thrall, why the hell are you here if our excitement so excites you?
            Ukrainians also jumped out problems on their own and on other people's asses.
            People reasonably worry.
            No one wants another Russophobe near by.

            You shouldn't be so ... The person was "worried" about visas ..
            1. +11
              18 September 2019 07: 25
              That is yes. I did not think. fool
              A visa to the USA is sacred. laughing
              1. +9
                18 September 2019 07: 54
                A visa to the USA is sacred.
                Silly irony. But nothing that our reality is this?

                But nothing that our government invests in their securities? But nothing that scientific and technical cooperation, which also requires visas, has nothing to do with Russophobia?
                1. +8
                  18 September 2019 08: 31
                  According to some reports, the United States of America initiated the return of ambassadors to their jobs.

                  American foxes never climb into someone else's foreign chicken coop!
                  The USA expects to expand and strengthen its sphere of influence on the Republic of Belarus.
                  Apparently, Washington believes that in the current military-political international situation, the time for this is especially ripe.
                  1. +8
                    18 September 2019 08: 40
                    How can you expand your sphere of influence without the consent or connivance of the other side? In addition, this fox still continues to sit in our "chicken coop" and use it, and this is far from only Navalny. Suffice it to ask who at our top has been trained or trained in the United States in different programs.
                    1. +3
                      18 September 2019 09: 36
                      Quote: vic02
                      How can one expand the sphere of influence without the consent or connivance of a second party?

                      The diplomatic status of the ambassador is higher than the status of the temporary representative, for he brings to a shorter contact with the heads of the foreign state.

                      Recall that during the Maidan in Kiev, the headquarters of the Maydan was at the US Embassy in Kiev in Ukraine, after the United States, Jeffrey Payette.
                      And a lot of things that the then president of Ukraine Yanukovych against the USA and the Maydan could do about it? Never mind!
                      That and that.
                      1. 0
                        18 September 2019 09: 41
                        The problem with the Yanukovych’s government was not that the Maydanut’s headquarters were at the US embassy, ​​but that the entire Ukrainian elite and himself were on a short leash from Washington. Do not be this dependence, where the headquarters of the Maidan was would not matter.
                        1. +3
                          18 September 2019 09: 49
                          Quote: vic02
                          the whole Ukrainian elite and he himself were on a short leash at Washington.

                          So I’m talking about that and that the ambassador has more opportunity to influence the head of state of the host country, since he has a shorter exit to the leadership of both states than the temporary attorney of the foreign diplomatic mission.
                        2. 0
                          18 September 2019 10: 03
                          Going back to the previous answer again. If the country's leadership pursues a sane policy in the interests of the country and the people, there is no opportunity to influence from the outside in conflict with such interests. If the country's leadership is occupied with its personal or narrowly clan interests, then please influence as much as you like. And here again we must first of all pay attention to our own government.
                        3. +3
                          18 September 2019 10: 16
                          Quote: vic02
                          And here again we must first of all pay attention to our own government.

                          Ha! And with our government, what is still nothing clear to you? laughing (Sarcasm.)
                          We have already spoken about our government 100 times! One upset crying , not a people's government!
                        4. +1
                          18 September 2019 10: 23
                          Quote: vic02
                          The problem with the Yanukovych’s government was not that the Maydanut’s headquarters were at the US embassy, ​​but that the entire Ukrainian elite and himself were on a short leash from Washington. Do not be this dependence, where the headquarters of the Maidan was would not matter.

                          ===
                          it can be assumed that even if Yanukovych was on a leash in Russia, he promised and did whatever, but Ukraine could not be divided, the work was well prepared. with or without war, and Parubiy shared that the headquarters plans, with the unfavorable development of events in Kiev, were to relocate to the lions and raise an armed uprising in the western regions.
                        5. +3
                          18 September 2019 10: 34
                          Unfortunately yes. Moreover, most of the inhabitants of Kiev and its environs would have opposed the same, they wanted so much "to Europe". The United States worked well on the political soil in Ukraine while the Russian leadership was clapping its ears.
                      2. +4
                        18 September 2019 09: 53
                        Really dangerous is when the country's leadership decides that officers should undergo training or internships in the United States. For example, as in Kazakhstan or Azerbaijan, and almost happened with us under Minister Serdyukov.
                  2. +2
                    18 September 2019 09: 59
                    Quote: Tatiana
                    According to some reports, the United States of America initiated the return of ambassadors to their jobs.

                    American foxes never climb into someone else's foreign chicken coop!
                    The USA expects to expand and strengthen its sphere of influence on the Republic of Belarus.
                    Apparently, Washington believes that in the current military-political international situation, the time for this is especially ripe.

                    I doubt very much that before the upcoming next year's presidential election in Belarus, the US ambassador will begin work in Minsk ...
                    1. +3
                      18 September 2019 10: 04
                      Quote: Greg Miller
                      I doubt very much that before the upcoming next year's presidential election in Belarus, the US ambassador will begin work in Minsk ...

                      Ha! You may be right! For "father" Lukashenko is also not a fool and is not particularly noticed in politics for being naive!
                      But if it is not Lukashenko who is elected, but someone else, it is not yet known where in the end R. Belarus will turn in politics and whether he will.
                      1. 0
                        18 September 2019 10: 18
                        Quote: Tatiana
                        Quote: Greg Miller
                        I doubt very much that before the upcoming next year's presidential election in Belarus, the US ambassador will begin work in Minsk ...

                        Ha! You may be right! For "father" Lukashenko is also not a fool and is not particularly noticed in politics for being naive!
                        But if it is not Lukashenko who is elected, but someone else, it is not yet known where in the end R. Belarus will turn in politics and whether he will.

                        They will not elect Lukashenko in Belarus then, the code will not be either Belarus itself or Lukashenko himself ...
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            1. +8
              18 September 2019 07: 28
              No from Lukashenko will not do.
              But for example, Thrall immediately felt a dependence on the Russians. laughing

              Quote: Thrall
              I do not understand why citizens of other states are so excited.


              We, in an instant, became "citizens of other states." laughing
          3. +3
            18 September 2019 10: 30
            Are you weak in breaking the dip / relationship with the USA?
            They were distracting ...
        2. +1
          18 September 2019 07: 00
          Both will become easier in visa matters,

          Especially minke whales, to once again make maidan.
          1. 0
            18 September 2019 10: 40
            Again wrong!
            You are accustomed to greet Polosatik only while standing (the military calls it on the command "Smirrno !!!" and even in the Duma ...
            1. +2
              18 September 2019 10: 56
              It's funny! We are so often frightened by the "Maidan", but they do not notice that they themselves are now close to the "Maidan" as never before. And how many chairs the Russian "elite" manages to sit on! The wonders of polyzopia and nothing more.
            2. +2
              18 September 2019 12: 43
              Quote: VeteranVSSSR
              Again wrong!
              You are accustomed to greet Polosatik only while standing (the military calls it on the command "Smirrno !!!" and even in the Duma ...

              Better standing and with honor than on all fours like you and lying down.
              1. +1
                18 September 2019 13: 44
                Sergey Sergeyevich, I would like to remind you that it is eleven years old! back the ambassadors were told-a suitcase, train station, home.
                And I would like to ask, where have you been all this time? Why didn’t you saliva from admiration and delight?
                And answer me the question, which of our bureaucrats studied in the USA, and which of our bureaucrats children lives in the USA ??? Continue ???
                And in general, the wind that blows from the east, recently began to smell like rotten. I would very much like that it would not start to stink ...
                1. -2
                  18 September 2019 13: 58
                  that is eleven years old! back the ambassadors were told-a suitcase, train station, home.

                  Now it was a right and worthy act, from the Belarusian side, that they had kicked out the whales
                  And I would like to ask, where have you been all this time?

                  Since it was 10 years ago, I have not yet been drafted into the army, most likely I hunted in the taiga.
                  why didn’t you saliva from admiration and delight?

                  At that time, most likely, probably, this site did not exist yet, so that you could write about it.
                  And answer me the question, which of our bureaucrats studied in the USA, and which of our bureaucrats children lives in the USA ??? Continue ???
                  Without any idea which of your Ukrainian or Belarusian people,
                  I had a rest and studied, it is not interesting to me.
                  And in general, the wind that blows from the east, recently began to smell like rotten. I would very much like that it would not start to stink ...
                  And from the West, he blew even earlier.
                  1. 0
                    18 September 2019 14: 02
                    But I’m wondering, but that’s why your patriots have real estate over the hill, children over the hill, and we don’t need it !!!!
                    1. -2
                      18 September 2019 14: 24
                      Quote: VeteranVSSSR
                      But I’m wondering, but that’s why your patriots have real estate over the hill, children over the hill, and we don’t need it !!!!

                      I will correct you a little, a true patriot has no real estate abroad, he does everything for the good of his country, that's why he is called a patriot.
                      kids over the hill, and we nuzzzy !!!!
                      And you didn’t draw any conclusions for yourself from those countries that the minke whales destroyed, in the likeness of Kuev, to which a long flirtation with them can lead. While they needed them, they lured them, and then worked them out and removed them. Gennady, they do not need you, they will defend their interests with the help of you and will take you away as an unnecessary tool.
                      1. 0
                        18 September 2019 15: 50
                        Sergey Sergeyevich, I have been to Kiev and not only. And believe me, they (Kievans) have neither tails, nor hooves.
                        And if I understand you correctly, then you and I are in different weight categories - I have DMB 79 years old, and ten years ago you still didn’t take off the mark on your overcoat ...
                        Do you, Russians, have a proverb, don’t teach your father how to make children, but I hope you know about the mote and the log?
                        Sincerely.
                        1. 0
                          18 September 2019 16: 11
                          , I was in Kiev and not only. And believe me, they (Kievans) have neither tails, nor hooves.

                          And where does it? If minke whales use them to defend their interests.
                          And if I understand you correctly, then you and I are in different weight categories - I have DMB 79 years old, and ten years ago you still didn’t take off the mark on your overcoat ...

                          They didn’t really take off the mark for the overcoat, since we already didn’t have them, and already started to take measurements on the pea jacket.
                          Do you, Russians, have a proverb, don’t teach your father how to make children, but I hope you know about the mote and the log?
                          Yes, we have such a proverb, but there are people who constantly need to be taught something. But you, from your actions, a speck with this log and which gets stuck later, it will be very difficult to remove.
        3. +7
          18 September 2019 07: 01
          hi Nobody argues that this is good or bad. In an interesting time we live simply. Warming dip. relations before what prevented? Human rights in Belarus? Laughter.
          And as for the excitement of citizens of other countries, it’s just for you to look at Belarusian sites. There, when Russia is mentioned in the headline on "half a thousand" in an hour of malicious comments. Everything would be fine, but these flies flying to the state. providing for BatkaYes
          1. +2
            18 September 2019 07: 08
            There, at the mention of Russia in the headline on "half a thousand" in an hour of malicious comments
            In Kiev, too, maliciously, now the truth is crying ...
            1. +14
              18 September 2019 07: 19
              Yes, no one in Kiev is crying. I talked a lot. In vain, the government of the visa did not put in exchange for the races.
              I don’t understand this mentality at all. They look after every sneeze by mouth. They like to earn money in Russia, dream of a passport, and at the same time they harshly hate everything Russian. Only with empty stomachs can this be eradicated. The West will help them laughing
              1. +1
                18 September 2019 07: 33
                Leopard change his spots.
                This is a long matter.
                Only a new generation can change their outlook on life. Rather, get a new look.
                Everyone understands this. Both Americans and Russians.
                And even Poroshenko understands. It was for this reason that he introduced education in a surrogate dialect.
                True, they themselves communicate in Russian in families. laughing
                1. +3
                  18 September 2019 07: 44
                  You don’t just have to talk about new generations. There, life experience from YouTube is scooped ... sometimes you want to go to a different world faster, so as not to see all this laughing
                  In the Republic of Belarus, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is very Western. The legs are growing from there.
                  I remember a joke of 10 years ago, somewhere, as the main ideologist-Westophobe found a green card and many other Western goodies request
        4. 0
          18 September 2019 07: 27
          visa issues possible! Just how many "women" were invested in the Republic of Belarus ?! They could have used them for the development of the Russian Federation. Everything here is much more complicated and at the same time more prosaic. After all, VVP was warned that Babich should not be removed from the Republic of Belarus. And here are the consequences. Now, after the arrival of the FSA ambassador to Belarus, a new network of nationalists will be hastily trailing along. If now there are, roughly speaking, 1000, then in a year there will be 3000. With this curtsey, Lukashenka finally abandoned integration (unification). RB goes to the Russian table to eat, but wants to dance with the West. It's funny. Wangyu return of Babich to the Republic of Belarus. Or someone more serious. Otherwise, we will get a non-stale analog at hand, with all the ensuing consequences. But one question: "Isn't it too late already?"
        5. +1
          18 September 2019 08: 22
          Peace to the world !!
          And the "green" ones will flow along the Belarusian rivers ..
        6. +5
          18 September 2019 09: 07
          - why are citizens so excited other states.
          Reply
          Oh how. Well, yes, everything is right sometimes we are brothers and one family, sometimes [i] another state-va. ... I wonder if there is any pattern here? Well, maybe someday I'll be smarter guess ...
        7. Geo
          +3
          18 September 2019 09: 17
          Quote: Thrall
          This applies only to Belarusians and Americans.

          It doesn’t happen).
      2. +2
        18 September 2019 08: 33
        Quote: askort154
        Or a new lever for blackmailing Russia ?!

        In Ukraine, the American "blitzkrieg" against Russia began to slip. The civil war has not stopped for 5 years and it is not known when and how it will end, corruption, especially under Poroshenko, ruined both the economy and the army. How much money do not pour, everything is like a cesspool. An ally and a "friend" turned out to be the slogan "Glory to the heroes" and a game of jumping. Most likely, the United States changed its attitude towards Belarus with the subsequent replacement of Ukraine by Belarus. So the trial steps begin, maybe it will work out.
    2. +2
      18 September 2019 06: 29
      Mudry Lukashenko!
    3. -1
      18 September 2019 06: 29
      President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, “a historic moment is coming in US-Belarus relations.” This is an indicator of our relations with Belarus (a stranglehold is clearly seen in the economic sense).
    4. +9
      18 September 2019 06: 29
      And as a souvenir cookies will be presented ...
      1. +1
        18 September 2019 08: 39
        Quote: Rainman_1
        And as a souvenir cookies will be presented ...

        American cookies brand "Nuland" is a brand. And yet, a breakthrough appeared in Anglo-Saxon diplomacy, because before, when conquering other territories, they gave glass beads and copper rings, and now they give cookies. Progress!
    5. +2
      18 September 2019 06: 31
      Well done AHL. As soon as you don’t twist in search of money for a sixth term. The United States will not give much, but the Russian Federation, frightened by the swing, will give as long as you like. 25 years the “only ally” has the same tricks lol
    6. +7
      18 September 2019 06: 37
      the old man will ask for guarantees, the nude example of Yanukovych does not teach anything, let the American goat into the Belarusian garden, so that he will quickly arrange a color revolution
    7. +8
      18 September 2019 06: 43
      ... "Take the example of the Belarusians. The Belarusians do not ask what the Motherland can do for them, they ask themselves what Russia can do for their Motherland."
    8. 0
      18 September 2019 06: 53
      Oh, now how many US spies are legally sent to Belarus! We will have to close the border with Belarus.
      1. +1
        18 September 2019 06: 55
        Quote: Thrifty
        Oh, now how many US spies are legally sent to Belarus! We will have to close the border with Belarus.

        By the same logic, Belarus should have closed the border with us long ago - our spies are already being "evacuated" almost from behind the Kremlin wall
      2. +3
        18 September 2019 08: 50
        Quote: Thrifty
        Oh, now how many US spies are legally sent to Belarus

        Spies throughout the post-Soviet space were planted and recruited even during the collapse of the union, he is a quiet inconspicuous spy, but NGOs are plagued and recruited for dollars (traitors were, are and will be). These guys, under the command of the owners, will begin to work out the "silversmiths" with great enthusiasm, this is where the whole danger lies. Bulk, Sables or Swans will appear, they grow like mushrooms in a wet forest.
    9. +3
      18 September 2019 06: 53
      Well, yes ... "And we have already made up. We made up when they pulled Uncle Fyodor out of the snow. Because joint work, for my benefit, it unites."
    10. -1
      18 September 2019 07: 07
      Well But father, wait for the Maidan! :-) In Rostov, there are still free houses. :-)
      1. -2
        18 September 2019 09: 44
        Well, Father, wait for the Maidan!

        Do you propose to wait for the return of Belarus to "home harbor"?
        1. +2
          18 September 2019 10: 14
          Quote: 777-3-59-97
          Well, Father, wait for the Maidan!

          Do you propose to wait for the return of Belarus to "home harbor"?

          ===
          and why is she not your own?
    11. +1
      18 September 2019 08: 06
      Scribe country!
    12. +2
      18 September 2019 08: 48
      Well, that’s it ...
      We are waiting for the color revolution in Belarus ...
      The only country where a color revolution is impossible is the United States.
      For there is no US embassy in it ...
      Drive them But father with wet rags!
    13. -3
      18 September 2019 09: 30
      Russia: "we stand for a multipolar world, for fair and equal cooperation."

      Belarus: decides to restore diplomatic relations with the United States.

      Also Russia: "Oh, you are lice beddings !!!, GOSDEPOVSKY LITTERS !!! LIKE THE LIVES ?? !!
    14. +5
      18 September 2019 09: 33
      Stupidity with the help of greed and revenge nevertheless defeated prudence and a sense of self-preservation. Does Lukashenko really not understand that with the arrival of new employees of the American embassy the question of his overthrow has been launched? And it can happen so quickly that Kolya’s toy cannot be assembled. But the most influential people around will give the most honest words about the preservation and continuity of power.
      1. +2
        18 September 2019 11: 02
        About Kolenka with toys in general. CLASS. From me, plus a huge good
    15. +2
      18 September 2019 09: 33
      Russia is pushing hard with unification, so we see a reaction to this.
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    17. +1
      18 September 2019 10: 12
      Maidan cooked striped slowly?
    18. +1
      18 September 2019 10: 50
      If you carefully read and compare events, the conclusions are clearer than clear -
      At the end of 2018, Minsk and Moscow agreed to create a working group to resolve issues of concern and development integration.
      This summer, talks between Lukashenko and Putin took place.
      It was decided by November 1 to develop about 28 roadmaps for integration in various fields, by mid-2020 - unified legislation, and starting in 2021, launch oil and gas, industrial, agricultural and transport markets on uniform rules .

      Hale emphasized that The US "very strongly" supports the independence of Belarus.
      The US Under Secretary of State spoke about this both at a meeting with Lukashenko and at a visit to the Kurapaty tract, where he mentioned the price that Belarusians paid for its sovereignty.
    19. -2
      18 September 2019 11: 19
      the "owners" from the Russian Federation got in. a feeling that the Republic of Belarus is a vassal of Russia, and they have no right to do anything without permission. And if they do, then how nice it is to read the comments here, when the "patriots" breaks the fifth point. Remember one thing - you can screech and throw mud, but nothing will change from this, and your opinion will not change anything, since it weighs zero. and so on
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    20. +3
      18 September 2019 14: 22
      The old man became bored, probably his little liberds, he wanted more horses.
    21. +1
      18 September 2019 21: 10
      And who is the moderator on the branch? The answer to the question - why deleted my comment? belay

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