{"id":507151,"date":"2026-01-03T14:23:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=507151"},"modified":"2026-01-03T15:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:06:48","slug":"belarusian-foreign-ministry-condemns-armed-aggression-but-does-not-name-the-aggressor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-foreign-ministry-condemns-armed-aggression-but-does-not-name-the-aggressor","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Foreign Ministry Condemns \u201cArmed Aggression\u201d but Does Not Name the Aggressor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus has issued a statement on the situation in Venezuela. The statement categorically condemns armed aggression but does not specify who carried it out.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus categorically condemns the armed aggression committed on January 3, 2026, against the sovereign state of Venezuela and considers it a direct threat to international peace and security,\u201d<\/i> the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Minsk declared its <i>\u201cunwavering support for the legitimate government of Venezuela\u201d<\/i> and joined the call for the urgent convening of the UN Security Council, <i>\u201cwhich bears primary responsibility for the maintenance of peace.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It was reported that Belarus\u2019s diplomatic mission in Caracas is operating as usual and that its personnel are safe. Work is under way to monitor the situation involving Belarusian citizens, and no information about emergencies involving them has been received.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe Republic of Belarus emphasizes that the right of the Venezuelan people to independently determine their own destiny is inviolable. No forms of external interference, especially the use of force, can be justified,\u201d<\/i> the Belarusian Foreign Ministry concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, the United States carried out a large-scale operation against Venezuela and its leader, President <b>Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/b>. U.S. President <b>Donald Trump<\/b> said that Maduro and his wife <i>\u201cwere captured and taken out of the country.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus has issued a statement on the situation in Venezuela. The statement categorically condemns armed aggression but does not specify who carried it out. \u201cThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus categorically condemns the armed aggression committed on January 3, 2026, against the sovereign state of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":507150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6959065e01b9c.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Foreign Ministry Condemns \u201cArmed Aggression\u201d but Does Not Name the Aggressor"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507151","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=507151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}