{"id":501789,"date":"2025-12-11T18:07:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=501789"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:08:20","slug":"tsikhanouskaya-meets-italian-lawmakers-we-must-prepare-for-a-new-window-of-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/tsikhanouskaya-meets-italian-lawmakers-we-must-prepare-for-a-new-window-of-opportunity","title":{"rendered":"Tsikhanouskaya Meets Italian Lawmakers: \u201cWe Must Prepare for a New Window of Opportunity\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Today in Rome, the head of the United Transitional Cabinet, <b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b>, met with members of the group \u201cFor Democratic Belarus.\u201d During the meeting, she thanked Italian parliamentarians for their solidarity and support for Belarus \u2014 both in international organisations and in receiving Belarusian refugees, former political prisoners, and volunteers who fought for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The democratic leader stressed that the situation in Belarus remains extremely difficult: daily arrests, deaths in prison, and repression against anyone expressing support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, she presented several practical initiatives:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 to initiate a resolution in the Italian Parliament on the situation in Belarus, political prisoners, and geopolitical risks;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 to organise in 2026 a large congress of symbolic \u201cgodparents\u201d of Belarusian political prisoners, with the participation of former prisoners and their families;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 to open internship programmes for Belarusian youth in the Parliament and offices of Italian deputies;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 to support active participation of Belarusian parliamentary groups in the International Parliamentarians\u2019 Alliance and take part in the next forum in London;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 to use key Belarusian events for public information and support campaigns;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 to organise regular meetings with the Belarusian diaspora in Rome, Florence, Bologna, Milan, and other cities.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThank you for this productive meeting. I am very glad to see how the Belarusian topic brings together all groups and parties. Your support and attention to Belarus help us move forward,\u201d<\/i> the Belarusian politician said after the meeting.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe must prepare for a new window of opportunity,\u201d<\/i> she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Rome, the head of the United Transitional Cabinet, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, met with members of the group \u201cFor Democratic Belarus.\u201d During the meeting, she thanked Italian parliamentarians for their solidarity and support for Belarus \u2014 both in international organisations and in receiving Belarusian refugees, former political prisoners, and volunteers who fought for Ukraine. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/693ba34ab6f11.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Tsikhanouskaya Meets Italian Lawmakers: \u201cWe Must Prepare for a New Window of Opportunity\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501789","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}