WASHINGTON, April 20 – RIA Novosti. The US President Donald trump has announced his intention to nominate Deputy assistant Secretary Julie Fischer as Ambassador to Belarus, said in a statement on Monday a White house statement.
“Today President Donald trump announced his intention to nominate the following people to key positions in his administration: Julie Fisher from Tennessee to the post of Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Belarus”, – the document says.
Specifies that Fischer now works in the Bureau of the state Department on Affairs of Europe and Eurasia, and was previously the chargé d’affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Russia.
In mid-February the Minister of foreign Affairs of the Republic Vladimir Makei said that the candidate on a post of the Ambassador of Belarus in the United States and submitted for consideration of President Alexander Lukashenko. He expressed confidence that the procedure will be completed in the near future.
In recent years, Belarus ‘ relations with the West improved on the background of the role of Minsk settlement of the conflict in the East of Ukraine. Including the intensified visits of senior American officials in Belarus. Republic on 1 February called for U.S. Secretary of state Mike Pompeo in part of their Eurasian tour, he held talks with Lukashenko and Makei.
the United States and Belarus are mutually recalled its Ambassador in 2008, now the embassies in both countries are headed by temporary attorneys.
