{"id":502159,"date":"2025-12-12T19:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=502159"},"modified":"2025-12-13T11:54:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:54:33","slug":"budrys-lithuania-ready-to-send-special-envoy-ambassador-to-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/budrys-lithuania-ready-to-send-special-envoy-ambassador-to-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Budrys: Lithuania Ready to Send Special Envoy Ambassador to Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuania is ready to send an ambassador-at-large to Belarus for talks, Lithuanian Foreign Minister <b>K\u0119stutis Budrys<\/b> told the outlet 15min, as reported by LRT.<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ab<\/span>Such a level [an ambassador-at-large] would be possible on our side. We have provided for this. We have repeatedly sent such a proposal to Belarus, both verbally and in writing<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00bb<\/span>,<\/i> Budrys said.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry expressed doubts about the usefulness of negotiations with Belarus and said that more serious talks with Minsk would require <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00bb<\/span><i>approval at the national level<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00bb<\/span><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ab<\/span>These are issues that we have no authority to discuss, because they fall within the competence of the European Union. Sanctions immediately fall away, because this is not Lithuania\u2019s decision alone<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00bb<\/span>,<\/i> Budrys said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said it had proposed holding talks with the Belarusian side on the sidelines of the OSCE ministerial summit on December 4 at the level of a special envoy, but the Belarusian delegation was not satisfied with this format and refused the meeting. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry, in turn, said that it had offered the Lithuanian side consultations on the sidelines of the OSCE meeting, but that the proposal was not accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus insists on political talks at the level of foreign ministries, while <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> has put forward a number of demands to Lithuania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania is ready to send an ambassador-at-large to Belarus for talks, Lithuanian Foreign Minister K\u0119stutis Budrys told the outlet 15min, as reported by LRT. \u00abSuch a level [an ambassador-at-large] would be possible on our side. We have provided for this. We have repeatedly sent such a proposal to Belarus, both verbally and in writing\u00bb, Budrys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":498587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/693d29cf425fd.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Budrys: Lithuania Ready to Send Special Envoy Ambassador to Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502159","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\/502159","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=502159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}