Belarus officials say long-time foreign minister Vladimir Makei has died suddenly
long-standing Belarus chancellor has died suddenlythe country's foreign ministry said on Saturday, two days before he met his Russian counterpart.“Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Vladimir Makei has passed away,” the Republic of Belarus Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a tweet. Makei had held his position since 2012.Makei, 64, attended a conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a military alliance of several post-Soviet states, in Yerevan earlier this week and was scheduled to meet on Monday with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.Prior to the presidential election and mass anti-government protests in Belarus in 2020, Makei had…
