{"id":496349,"date":"2025-11-13T13:34:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=496349"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:45:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:45:39","slug":"ruginiene-we-are-not-holding-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ruginiene-we-are-not-holding-talks","title":{"rendered":"Ruginien\u0117: We Are Not Holding Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian Prime Minister <b>Inga Ruginien\u0117<\/b> stated that no negotiations are being held with the Belarusian side. The head of the Lithuanian government expects Belarus to take measures to stop the flights of balloons that have disrupted operations at Vilnius Airport. Only after that, she said, could discussions about reopening the border begin.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cIndeed, all diplomatic channels have been activated to resolve the situation. The borders with Belarus were not closed without reason, but because of a hybrid attack. As soon as we receive assurances from the Belarusian side that these attacks are under control and we have no issues in this regard, we will make a decision to reopen the border. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>We are not holding talks. We are sending a clear signal that the borders were closed due to the hybrid attacks that took place. Once this process is over and once the Belarusian side assures us that it will not continue, we will make the corresponding positive decisions,\u201d Delfi quoted Ruginien\u0117 as saying.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Ruginien\u0117 noted that there are some positive signs.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAirports are not being closed as they were at the beginning; the coordination algorithm is functioning smoothly and effectively. And the number of these balloons is not as large as we recorded earlier (&#8230;). There are positive signs, but much more work needs to be done,\u201d<\/i> she said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Belarusian Foreign Minister <b>Maksim Ryzhankou<\/b> stated that Minsk insists on the full reopening of the border between the two countries. He also noted that a proposal for negotiations to resolve the situation had been sent to the Lithuanian side.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Ruginien\u0117 confirmed that a letter from the Belarusian side regarding the start of negotiations had been received. She said it would be reviewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginien\u0117 stated that no negotiations are being held with the Belarusian side. The head of the Lithuanian government expects Belarus to take measures to stop the flights of balloons that have disrupted operations at Vilnius Airport. Only after that, she said, could discussions about reopening the border begin. \u201cIndeed, all diplomatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":493561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6915fd269e38f.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Ruginien\u0117: We Are Not Holding Talks"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496349","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}