{"id":524278,"date":"2026-03-10T11:26:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=524278"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:41:44","slug":"delfi-coale-to-arrive-in-vilnius-on-march-18-and-then-travel-to-minsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/delfi-coale-to-arrive-in-vilnius-on-march-18-and-then-travel-to-minsk","title":{"rendered":"Delfi: Coale To Arrive In Vilnius On March 18 And Then Travel To Minsk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>U.S. presidential special envoy for Belarus <b>John Coale<\/b> will arrive in Vilnius next week and then travel to Minsk, Delfi reported, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Lithuanian publication, Coale will arrive in Vilnius on 18 March and then proceed to Minsk.<\/p>\n<p>Previous visits by Coale to the Belarusian capital were accompanied by announcements of U.S. sanctions relief toward <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b>, as well as the release of political prisoners who were subsequently taken out of Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, while visiting a fast-food restaurant of the Mak.by chain, Lukashenka hinted that he expects a delegation from the United States. He even suggested that First Deputy Prime Minister <b>Mikalai Snapkou<\/b> take the American delegation to one of the chain\u2019s outlets, which operates in place of McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cNow let the Americans come and see. When they come to me, be sure to bring them here. Tell them: let\u2019s go to McDonald\u2019s \u2014 and read: \u2018MAK.by. Belarusian.\u2019 Belarusians are working, Belarusian equipment, Belarusian product. Eat,\u201d<\/i> Lukashenka said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. presidential special envoy for Belarus John Coale will arrive in Vilnius next week and then travel to Minsk, Delfi reported, citing sources. According to the Lithuanian publication, Coale will arrive in Vilnius on 18 March and then proceed to Minsk. Previous visits by Coale to the Belarusian capital were accompanied by announcements of U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":524277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69afd94d8e018.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Delfi: Coale To Arrive In Vilnius On March 18 And Then Travel To Minsk"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-524278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524278","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=524278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}