{"id":524687,"date":"2026-03-11T14:26:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=524687"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:16:17","slug":"turchyn-urges-foreign-ministry-to-stress-futility-of-sanctions-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/turchyn-urges-foreign-ministry-to-stress-futility-of-sanctions-to-europe","title":{"rendered":"Turchyn Urges Foreign Ministry To Stress Futility Of Sanctions To Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Alyaksandr Turchyn<\/b> has urged Belarusian diplomats to persistently explain the futility of sanctions to their European counterparts. The Belarusian prime minister made the statement at a Foreign Ministry board meeting, noting that Belarus cannot fully withdraw from the European market despite sanctions.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWestern business is far from enthusiastic about the decisions of European institutions and remains interested in cooperation with us. Therefore, we must continue to actively develop contacts, not miss any \u2018windows of opportunity\u2019 and do everything possible not only to preserve but also to strengthen our positions on the European market.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>And therefore, continue \u2014 as persistently as you already do \u2014 to convey to European partners our principled position on the dead-end nature of the sanctions approach and to make the most of emerging alternative political ideas within the European Union,\u201d<\/em> the prime minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier at the meeting, Foreign Minister <b>Maksim Ryzhankou<\/b> said Belarus was not closing the door to Western countries.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the session, Turchyn noted that 2025 had been a difficult year, but overall the Foreign Ministry and the government had performed quite successfully. According to him, exports remain the main priority despite the extremely volatile geopolitical situation.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that Russia remains a strategic partner.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cDespite the high level of political contacts, the potential for cooperation with our other traditional partners within the CIS space has not been fully realized. My official visits to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan show that there are plenty of projects of interest to us there. The market of Kyrgyzstan also has enormous potential that has not yet been fully utilized,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Turchyn added that work on integration platforms must be built \u201cstrictly through the prism of Belarus\u2019s national interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister also recalled that the country\u2019s socio-economic development program until 2030 \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0443\u0441\u043c\u0430\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0432\u0430\u0435\u0442 increasing the share of exports to countries of the \u201cfar arc\u201d to one-third of the total volume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyaksandr Turchyn has urged Belarusian diplomats to persistently explain the futility of sanctions to their European counterparts. The Belarusian prime minister made the statement at a Foreign Ministry board meeting, noting that Belarus cannot fully withdraw from the European market despite sanctions. \u201cWestern business is far from enthusiastic about the decisions of European institutions and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":524686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b15d16369f1.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Turchyn Urges Foreign Ministry To Stress Futility Of Sanctions To Europe"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090,143126],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-524687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","category-business","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524687","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=524687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}