{"id":503739,"date":"2025-12-18T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=503739"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:07:49","slug":"lukashenka-says-he-discussed-the-release-of-a-thousand-political-prisoners-with-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-says-he-discussed-the-release-of-a-thousand-political-prisoners-with-americans","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenka Says He Discussed the Release of a Thousand Political Prisoners With Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>At the All-Belarusian People\u2019s Assembly, <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> spoke about how he discussed with Americans the release of a thousand political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWhen the Americans say: release this person, I say: \u2018Guys, we\u2019ll give you another hundred.\u2019 That\u2019s how the previous talks ended \u2014 they latched onto that. A hundred. We had to give them a hundred. And now I tell them: \u2018A thousand. If you think a thousand\u2019&#8230; But we don\u2019t have a thousand there, so I say: we\u2019ll add drug addicts and others, please, take them away there. No, they say, we don\u2019t need drug addicts. We don\u2019t need bandits,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cSo I say: fine, then don\u2019t talk about a thousand. That\u2019s how the talks are going \u2014 not unsuccessfully. But once again I stress: seriously speaking, we need to build relations with them the way others do,\u201d<\/i> Lukashenka added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the All-Belarusian People\u2019s Assembly, Alyaksandr Lukashenka spoke about how he discussed with Americans the release of a thousand political prisoners. \u201cWhen the Americans say: release this person, I say: \u2018Guys, we\u2019ll give you another hundred.\u2019 That\u2019s how the previous talks ended \u2014 they latched onto that. A hundred. We had to give them a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":502192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/694442fa8b906.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lukashenka Says He Discussed the Release of a Thousand Political Prisoners With Americans"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503739","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=503739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}