{"id":526948,"date":"2026-03-19T15:22:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=526948"},"modified":"2026-03-19T15:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:55:04","slug":"coale-says-direct-contact-between-trump-and-lukashenka-may-happen-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/coale-says-direct-contact-between-trump-and-lukashenka-may-happen-soon","title":{"rendered":"Coale Says Direct Contact Between Trump and Lukashenka May Happen Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>US President\u2019s Special Envoy for Belarus <b>John Coale<\/b> said that direct contact between US President <b>Donald Trump<\/b> and <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> could take place in the near future. He made the statement to journalists in Minsk after talks with the Belarusian politician.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether a direct bilateral contact between Lukashenka and Trump \u2014 either a personal meeting or a phone call \u2014 could be expected in the short term, Coale answered affirmatively: <i>&#8220;Yes.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It should be recalled that during today\u2019s meeting between Lukashenka and Coale, <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/coale-says-possible-lukashenka-visit-to-united-states-discussed\">the possibility of Lukashenka visiting the United States<\/a> was also discussed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President\u2019s Special Envoy for Belarus John Coale said that direct contact between US President Donald Trump and Alyaksandr Lukashenka could take place in the near future. He made the statement to journalists in Minsk after talks with the Belarusian politician. When asked whether a direct bilateral contact between Lukashenka and Trump \u2014 either a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":526947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69bbf22f0159f.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Coale Says Direct Contact Between Trump and Lukashenka May Happen Soon"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-526948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526948","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=526948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}