"With progress (in the field of human rights and democracy. - RT ), we can discuss further steps to ease sanctions and deepen our cooperation," RIA Novosti quotes Hale.
At the end of August, Lukashenko, at a meeting with then-adviser to the American president, John Bolton, said that Belarus advocated building relations with the United States from a “new sheet”.
In June, US authorities decided to extend the regime of unilateral sanctions against Belarus for another year.