US to Lift Sanctions on Belarus

JAKARTA - The United States will lift sanctions against Belarus as the latest sign of thawing relations between Washington and the isolated autocracy.

John Coale, the US special envoy for Belarus, met with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, for talks in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, on Friday and Saturday, December 13.

As a close ally of Russia, Minsk has faced isolation and Western sanctions for years. Lukashenko has ruled the country of 9.5 million people with an iron fist for more than three decades.

The country has repeatedly been sanctioned by Western countries for both its human rights abuses and for allowing Moscow to use its territory in its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

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