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Belarus leader hosts US envoy as he seeks to improve his country’s ties with the West

Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday hosted a U.S. envoy for talks in the Belarus capital of Minsk, the latest step in the isolated leader’s effort to improve ties with the West.

Lukashenko joins Trump's 'Board of Peace' as US eases his isolation

MOSCOW, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed an agreement on Tuesday to join U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, the latest step in a rapprochement with ...
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Who is Europe’s ‘last dictator’ Alexander Lukashenko?

As Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine rumbles on after more than three years of bloody conflict, one man has stood by Russian President Vladimir Putin every step of the way: Belarusian President ...

Trump's ‘Board of Peace’ could upend world order, but faces pushback from allies

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invited, along with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and strongmen from Hungary to Belarus and ...
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Belarus' Lukashenko says US admission of failure to overturn re-election could revive relations

Dec 17 (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview that relations with the United States could improve and that a starting point could be U.S. acknowledgment that a ...