List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Belarus

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The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Belarus is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Republic of Belarus, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Minsk. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Belarus.

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History

Until 1991 Belarus was within the Soviet Union. When Belarus became independent at the end of 1991, the British ambassador to Russia was accredited also to Belarus until May 1993 when an office was opened in Minsk, within the German embassy, and for over a year the British Embassy worked out of a single, cramped room with its locally engaged support staff working off a desk lodged beneath the staircase. In July 1995 new premises were opened in a former geological laboratory, and are now shared between the British and Italian missions. Some staff, such as the Defence Attaché, are still based in Moscow. [1]

On 10 October 2020, the United Kingdom temporarily recalled its ambassador from Belarus amidst the 2020 Belarusian protests. [2]

List of heads of mission

Ambassadors to Belarus

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References

  1. ↑ "Embassy history – British Embassy Minsk". Archived from the original on 24 August 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ↑ "UK recalls ambassador to Belarus amid unrest". BBC. 10 October 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  3. ↑ "Fionna Gibb". gov.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  4. ↑ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Belarus – August 2019". gov.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
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