{"id":513714,"date":"2026-01-30T18:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=513714"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:11:48","slug":"experience-and-political-will-foreign-ministry-explains-why-belarus-was-accepted-into-peace-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/experience-and-political-will-foreign-ministry-explains-why-belarus-was-accepted-into-peace-council","title":{"rendered":"Experience and Political Will \u2014 Foreign Ministry Explains Why Belarus Was Accepted Into Peace Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that Belarus was accepted into the Peace Council not because of money, but for its \u201cexperience, resilience, and political will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On January 29, Polish Foreign Minister <b>Rados\u0142aw Sikorski<\/b> commented on Belarus\u2019s accession to the Peace Council and asked on social media platform X whether Minsk would pay $1 billion to rebuild Gaza. The official account of Belarus\u2019s Foreign Ministry responded to the post.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cSome are invited for their money, others for their experience, resilience, and political will. Belarus knows what it brings to the table,\u201d<\/i> the Belarusian Foreign Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, the Peace Council was officially established by <b>Donald Trump<\/b> on January 22. Initially, the organization was conceived to resolve the conflict in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Trump sent invitations to join the Peace Council to 58 countries. <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> accepted the invitation among the first, but said he would not pay $1 billion for membership. He expects the council to also address the settlement of the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some are invited for their money, others for their experience, resilience, and political will. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Belarus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Belarus<\/a> knows what it brings to the table \ud83d\ude0e <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TrTZ0JXD4X\">https:\/\/t.co\/TrTZ0JXD4X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Belarus MFA \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddfe (@BelarusMFA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BelarusMFA\/status\/2017234090550874406?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that Belarus was accepted into the Peace Council not because of money, but for its \u201cexperience, resilience, and political will.\u201d On January 29, Polish Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski commented on Belarus\u2019s accession to the Peace Council and asked on social media platform X whether Minsk would pay $1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":513713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/697ce65971dae.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Experience and Political Will \u2014 Foreign Ministry Explains Why Belarus Was Accepted Into Peace Council"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513714","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\/513714","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=513714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}