special envoy for Belarus, Julie Fisher, has been unable to work from the country, as the government will not grant her visa. That Taylor and Stryk got into the country is notable in its own right. “This is a country that is in a pivotal position in the middle of the biggest conflict in the world right now that could escalate into World War III.” “Whatever the people think of Lukashenko - the president there - we have no diplomat. A State Department spokesperson declined to comment. The White House did not return an immediate request for comment.
He claimed to have key contacts at the top of the Belarusian government and to be in communication with White House and State Department officials. government-sanctioned Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, he told POLITICO. During the visit, he spoke with Viktor Lukashenko, the son of U.S. He noted that advocating for the government of Belarus would be a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Taylor insists that he is not working for an enemy so much as trying to create dialogue to end the conflict. NATO recently held a military exercise on the Poland-Belarus border as a show of force against the country. And, for that, it has become an increasing pariah for the West.
It has become a staging ground for Russian troops to enter the country and move on Kyiv. government.īelarus, whose president is a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is one of the few countries openly helping the Kremlin in its invasion of Ukraine. The two men are among the few political players and influence peddlers still looking for opportunities in a country that has increasingly become an arm of the Kremlin, underscoring the fact that even in the hot cauldron of an raging war, there is money to be made and work to be done repping foreign interests before the U.S. He is in talks to work with the country’s potash industry, which has faced sanctions from the Biden administration - though the arrangement has not yet been formalized. Stryk wasn’t in Belarus on a diplomatic mission.
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