DATE:
07/03/2008
MINSK (Reuters) - Belarus recalled on Friday its ambassador to the United States and recommended that the U.S. envoy should leave the former Soviet nation.
Belarus's Foreign Ministry said in a statement the moves had been taken after Washington threatened to impose new sanctions on the country's national oil products firm Belneftekhim.
(Reporting by Andrei Makhovsky, writing by Dmitry Solovyov; Editing by Keith Weir)
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080307/pl_nm/belarus_usa_ambassador_dc_1