After it became known that the Belarusian delegation led by Foreign Minister Maksim Ryzhankou failed to obtain US visas to attend the inaugural meeting of the Peace Council on February 19, various explanations for the refusal emerged within the Belarusian expert community. Among them was the allegedly insufficient level of representation of the Minsk regime.
It should be recalled that the initial invitation from Donald Trump to visit Washington had been addressed personally to Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
Reform.news studied the group photograph of the summit participants and identified who exactly represented the participating countries. Not everyone in the photo was a head of state.
1. Prabowo Subianto — President of Indonesia
2. Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah — Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait
3. Javier Milei — President of Argentina
4. Nikolay Mladenov — High Representative for Gaza
5. Shavkat Mirziyoyev — President of Uzbekistan
6. Nasser Bourita — Minister of Foreign Affairs of Morocco
7. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev — President of Kazakhstan
8. Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan — Minister of Foreign Affairs of the UAE
9. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa — King of Bahrain
10. Steve Witkoff — US Special Envoy to the Middle East
11. Hun Manet — Prime Minister of Cambodia
12. Nikol Pashinyan — Prime Minister of Armenia
13. J.D. Vance — Vice President of the United States
14. Edi Rama — Prime Minister of Albania
15. Donald Trump — President of the United States
16. Mostafa Madbouly — Prime Minister of Egypt
17. Marco Rubio — US Secretary of State
18. Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani — Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar
19. Susan Wiles — White House Chief of Staff
20. Gideon Sa’ar — Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel
21. Jared Kushner — Son-in-law of Donald Trump
22. Alexandra Hill Tinoco — Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador
23. Ilham Aliyev — President of Azerbaijan
24. Shehbaz Sharif — Prime Minister of Pakistan
25. Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu — President of the Republic of Kosovo
26. Ayman Safadi — Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan
27. Santiago Peña — President of Paraguay
28. Adel Al-Jubeir — Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia
29. To Lam — General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
30. Viktor Orbán — Prime Minister of Hungary