Polish diplomat expelled from Belarus

The Belarussian Foreign Ministry has notified Poland that it will terminate Polish Embassy Councelor Andrzej Olborski's mission to Minsk and send him back to Poland, the Foreign Ministry's press service told Interfax on Tuesday.

"Belarus has made this decision in the wake of the Polish Foreign Ministry's notification of July 25, 2005, requiring the counselor of the Belarussian Embassy in Poland, Nikolai Petrovich, to leave Poland within ten days," the press service said.