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John Coale: The USA would very much like to normalize relations with Belarus

MINSK, 11 September (BelTA) – The United States of America would very much like to normalize relations with Belarus. The U.S. president’s representative John Coale made the statement as he met with Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko, BelTA has learned.

John Coale recalled an important phone conversation, which U.S. President Donald Trump had with Aleksandr Lukashenko when the former called the latter from Air Force One on the way to Alaska: “A very productive, very good conversation, after which he instructed me to call you back once again, which I did,” the U.S. president’s representative said.

“We would very much like to normalize our bilateral relations between the Republic of Belarus and the United States of America and we are ready to do everything for this normalization to happen. The removal of sanctions [from the Belarusian flag carrier Belavia] that we’ve just declared during this meeting is only the beginning. And if we come up with the right decisions during our discussion, our meeting regarding the other persons held in captivity (regarding prisoners), I think we will be able to achieve a lot on the way of normalization,” John Coale noted.

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