{"id":513588,"date":"2026-01-30T12:24:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=513588"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:47:14","slug":"zelenskyy-confirms-intention-to-appoint-envoy-for-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/zelenskyy-confirms-intention-to-appoint-envoy-for-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy Confirms Intention to Appoint Envoy for Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Ukrainian President <b>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/b> has confirmed his intention to appoint an envoy for Belarus. He made the statement while speaking to journalists.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI have not appointed an envoy for Belarus. I want to appoint one,\u201d<\/i> Ukrinform quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n<p>According to Zelenskyy, he plans to meet with several diplomats who could take up the position. He will make a decision afterward.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI want a strong person as envoy for Belarus. I believe this is the right step. The efforts of Belarusian democratic forces should be supported,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, last weekend in Vilnius, Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with <b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b>. At that time, information also emerged about the forthcoming appointment of a special envoy. Previously, a similar position was held for some time by former ambassador to Ukraine <b>Ihor Kyzym<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed his intention to appoint an envoy for Belarus. He made the statement while speaking to journalists. \u201cI have not appointed an envoy for Belarus. I want to appoint one,\u201d Ukrinform quoted him as saying. According to Zelenskyy, he plans to meet with several diplomats who could take up the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":495484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/697c7e2638bbf.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Zelenskyy Confirms Intention to Appoint Envoy for Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513588","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\/513588","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=513588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}