When Belarus became independent at the end of 1991, the British ambassador to Russia was accredited also to Belarus until May 1993 when an office was opened in Minsk, within the German embassy, and for over a year the British Embassy worked out of a single, cramped room with its locally engaged support staff working off a desk lodged beneath the staircase.
In July 1995 new premises were opened in a former geological laboratory, and are now shared between the British and Italian missions.
[1] On 10 October 2020, the United Kingdom temporarily recalled its ambassador from Belarus amidst the 2020 Belarusian protests.
[2] The mandate of the British ambassador to Belarus, Jacqueline Perkins, expired in August 2024.
However, the UK Government decided not to appoint a new ambassador, but instead to send a chargé d'affaires to Minsk.