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A ministry spokesman, Anatoly Hlaz, announced that 14 of the 25 diplomats must remain in the Lithuanian embassy and 18 of the 50 in the Polish embassy.
According to A. Glas, it was “proposed” to compare the number of representatives of the diplomatic missions of Lithuania and Latvia with the number of Belarusian diplomats in these countries.
The Ministry has also announced that it will call its ambassadors from Lithuania and Poland for consultations from October 5.
“The Polish and Lithuanian ambassadors in Belarus are urged to follow this example,” Hlazas said. tut.by.
Mass protests in Belarus erupted on August 9 with the announcement of the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko as the country’s long-time president. The protests were forcibly put down, with around 12,000 detained since their inception. people.
Lithuania and Poland have called on the European Union (EU) to impose sanctions on regime officials responsible for vote rigging and violence against protesters.
The leaders of these countries strongly criticize Lukashenko, and Lithuania accepted and granted protection to Sviatlan Cichanouskaya, who was declared the winner of the elections.
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Lithuania and Poland are also providing assistance to Belarusians affected by the regime.
Earlier on Friday, EU leaders said they had agreed to sanctions against members of the Lukashenko regime. For its part, Minsk announced retaliatory sanctions.
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