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Foreign Minister Makey meets with heads of EU, US diplomatic missions

Foreign Minister Uladzimir Makey on Friday held a meeting with the heads of diplomatic missions representing European Union countries, the Vatican, the United States and Switzerland to discuss "a wide range of issues concerning the state of and prospects for the development of Belarusian-European relations in the multilateral and bilateral formats," according to the Belarusian foreign ministry's press office.

On the same day, Minsk hosted a round of consultations between the Belarusian and Lithuanian foreign ministries on the European Union's Eastern Partnership program. The Lithuanian delegation to the talks included Edminas Bagdonas, director of the Department for Eastern Neighborhood Policy who served as ambassador to Belarus between February 2007 and July 2012, and Ambassador-at-large Vaidotas Verba.

The talks focused on, among other issues, preparations for an Eastern Partnership summit to be held in Vilnius in November, the press office said. //BelaPAN