The
grandmother of Tanya Kazyra asked the foreign ministry in Minsk
to help the girl return from the United States
to Belarus.
The girl has
made up her mind to go home, but the American host family prevents her from
traveling to Belarus and
contacting Belarusian consul in Washington,
Interfax quoted the grandmother as saying.
Tanya
Kazyra’s refusal to part from her host family, which she had visited every
summer since she was eight years old, caused a diplomatic tussle and led to a
ban on Belarusian children's respite holidays in the USA.