The former Soviet republic Belarus has issued a list of US diplomats it said must leave over Washington's failure to meet a demand to cut staff at its embassy in Minsk.
On its Internet site, the foreign ministry said a note had been issued to the US charge d'affaires in which a staff reduction from 17 to six was demanded. The reduction was the second Belarus had sought from the United States this year in connection with what it said were extensions of US sanctions. President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled since 1994, has been banned from the US and the European Union on allegations he rigged his re-election in 2006.
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