Belarus Expels French Ambassador, Embassy Cites No Reason For Move
NDTV
According to reports, the ambassador Nicolas de Lacoste was expelled because he never met President Alexander Lukashenko to give him copies of his credentials.
France's ambassador to Belarus has left the country after the authorities in Minsk demanded he leave by Monday, the embassy said.
The spokeswoman who made the announcement did not say why the Belarusian authorities told him to leave.
But according to reports in the Belarusian media, the ambassador Nicolas de Lacoste was expelled because he never met President Alexander Lukashenko to give him copies of his credentials.
Instead he gave them to Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei, according to the French embassy. Lukashenko, according to reports in the Belarus media, took that as a snub.
