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April 30th, 2008
Posted: 04:17 PM ET

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United States will comply with a request from the Belarusian government by withdrawing 10 U.S. diplomats from Minsk within 72 hours as part of an ongoing disagreement with the former Soviet republic, a State Department spokesman said Wednesday.

Sean McCormack said he didn’t know why Wednesday’s request was made.

“You can hypothesize that they weren’t happy about the fact that we continue to meet with those people in Belarusian political circles who have an interest in seeing greater political freedoms — freedom of expression and other kinds of freedoms — in Belarus,” McCormack said

He also noted the United States is pushing for the release of an American who in March was detained in Minsk and placed in a psychiatric hospital.


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