The Netherlands is represented in Belarus through its embassy in Warsaw (Poland) and through an honorary consulate in Minsk.

[1] On Dutch request, the European Union decided in October 2008 to soften the visa restrictions; certain other restrictions remain, such as the freezing of Belarus financial assets,[2] and the Dutch government objects to the normalization of relations between Belarus and the European Union.

[3] The Dutch opposed to inviting president Alexander Lukashenko to attend a summit in May 2009 in Vienna, where the program was to be launched;[4] such an invitation, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Verhagen contends, "would trivialize his dismal human rights record.

For many years children suffering from the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster had been vacationing abroad, about 1500 to 2000 annually came to the Netherlands.

Stichting Rusland Kinderhulp, the organization responsible for the housing of those children in the Netherlands, exerted pressure on the Belarus embassy in The Hague to re-open the borders.