Belarus officials say Vladimir Makei, long-time foreign minister, has died suddenly

'The Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Vladimir Makei has passed away,' the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus says.

, the country’s foreign ministry said Saturday, two days before he was meant to meet his Russian counterpart.

Makei, 64, 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., 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.

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