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Belarus United States
Although the United States awarded Belarus
most-favored-nation status (see Glossary)
for trade on February 16,
1993, and
dramatically increased aid (from US$8.3 million under
previously
signed agreements to US$100 million in January 1994)
because of
Belarus's agreement to approve the first Strategic Arms
Reduction
Treaty (START I) and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation
of
Nuclear Weapons. But the good relations between the United
States
and Belarus had cooled by 1995, when the reforms and
progress
toward democracy that had been developing slowly under
Stanislaw
Shushkyevich were stopped and even reversed by Alyaksandr
Lukashyenka. The United States has protested the
violations of
human rights and democratic reversals under the
Lukashyenka
administration
(see Internal Security
, this ch.).
Data as of June 1995
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