{"id":494764,"date":"2025-11-03T18:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=494764"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:34:46","slug":"belarus-to-reopen-embassy-in-slovakia-closed-since-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-to-reopen-embassy-in-slovakia-closed-since-2023","title":{"rendered":"Belarus to Reopen Embassy in Slovakia, Closed Since 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus will reopen its embassy in Slovakia, which has been closed since December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>According to a decree signed by the Belarusian prime minister, the embassy is to be reopened by September 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cRestoring Belarus\u2019s permanent diplomatic presence in Slovakia will significantly improve the effectiveness of efforts to develop political, trade, economic and investment ties, to explore opportunities for industrial cooperation, and to jointly enter new markets,\u201d<\/i> the government\u2019s press service said.<\/p>\n<p>Slovakia\u2019s current Prime Minister <b>Robert Fico<\/b> is known for his pro-Russian views. He has repeatedly spoken out against sanctions on Belarus and Russia. <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> met with Fico this September during a visit to China and invited him to Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus will reopen its embassy in Slovakia, which has been closed since December 2023. According to a decree signed by the Belarusian prime minister, the embassy is to be reopened by September 1, 2026. \u201cRestoring Belarus\u2019s permanent diplomatic presence in Slovakia will significantly improve the effectiveness of efforts to develop political, trade, economic and investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":494763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6908cb9bb6ebc.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus to Reopen Embassy in Slovakia, Closed Since 2023"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}