FILE PHOTO: Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meets with Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei in TehranFILE PHOTO: Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meets with Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei in Tehran
Makei had held his post since 2012. Makei attended a conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization , a military alliance of several post-soviet states, in Yerevan earlier this week and was due to meet Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Monday. However, he abruptly changed his stance after the start of the protests, saying they were inspired by agents of the West. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began in February, Makei, a supporter of close ties between Moscow and Minsk, said the West had provoked the war and that the Ukrainian authorities should agree to the Russian terms of peace.
A few days later, Russian troops proved that he was wrong. “We are shocked by the reports of the death of the Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus Vladimir Makei,” Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova posted in her Telegram channel.
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