UK Chargé d’Affaires Expresses Readiness To Gradually Develop Military Dialogue With Belarus

Reform.news Editorial Team · 12 November 2026, 16:55

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The United Kingdom has expressed readiness to gradually develop dialogue with Belarus in the military sphere. This was stated by the UK’s Chargé d’Affaires in Belarus, William Longhurst, at a meeting with Valery Ravenka, Head of the International Military Cooperation Department of the Belarusian Defence Ministry, the ministry’s press service reports.

The meeting was also attended by William George, a major and defence attaché at the British Embassy in Belarus.

According to the Defence Ministry, Revenko told the British diplomat about Belarus’s actions “aimed at reducing tensions” in Europe and “restoring constructive contacts with other countries through their defence ministries”.

“William Longhurst expressed the British side’s readiness to gradually develop Belarusian-British dialogue in the military sphere,” the press release said.

William Longhurst took up his post in Minsk in late July 2026.