Bulgaria withdraws ambassador from Belarus

Bulgaria is withdrawing its ambassador from Belarus a day after Minsk ordered the ambassadors of Poland and the EU to leave the country, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov has announced.

“After yesterday President Alexander Lukashenko kicked out the ambassadors of Poland and the EU, late last night we decided that all EU member states will pull out their ambassadors from this country,” Mladenov said Wednesday.

On Wednesday, the Bulgarian Cabinet approved the pullout of Bulgarian Ambassador in Minsk Zahari Radukov, and terminated his term.