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Expanding the staff of the American Embassy in Minsk will allow increasing financial assistance to non-governmental organizations working against the Belarusian authorities and the idea of integration with Russia.
Freedom House representative Sophia Orlosky said this at a hearing on the issue of “Russian interference in the affairs of Belarus”, which took place in Washington, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Over the last decade we have seen some attempts to support civil society initiatives. And there is foreign aid available to these groups. But, unfortunately, we cannot say that it is enough,” Kommersant quotes Orloski.
According to her, the task is greatly complicated by the barriers to obtaining foreign funding erected by the Belarusian authorities.
In turn, media analyst from the US Agency for Global Media Franak Vyachorka believes that the resumption of full-fledged work of the American Embassy will contribute to the development of “independent media and direct dialogue with the Belarusian people.”
At the end of September, Deputy Secretary of State David Hale, who visited Belarus, announced the restoration of diplomatic representation at the ambassadorial level. Minsk recalled its ambassador to America, Mikhail Khvostov, in 2008 after the United States imposed sanctions against Belarus in response to Minsk’s refusal to release oppositionist and ex-presidential candidate Alexander Kazulin from prison. At the same time, the head of the American diplomatic mission in Belarus, Karen Stewart, was asked to leave the country.
In April of this year, Mackay officially informed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent about the lifting of restrictions on the number of employees of the US Embassy in Minsk, which had been in force since 2008.
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