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Belarus warming to the EU?

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Belarus' president Alexander Lukashenko has spent the past few years reviled as Europe's last dictator, accused of ruling an oppressive regime with an iron fist and banned from travelling to the European Union. But all that is changing.

Last month he flew to Rome to meet the Pope and he was invited to attend a European Union summit on Thursday in Prague. So why the new approach from the EU to Belarus?

Gabriel Gatehouse has been finding out.

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