{"id":537518,"date":"2026-04-28T20:59:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=537518"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:11:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:11:46","slug":"coale-lukashenka-visit-to-the-u-s-under-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/coale-lukashenka-visit-to-the-u-s-under-discussion","title":{"rendered":"Coale: Lukashenka Visit To The U.S. Under Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>U.S. presidential envoy for Belarus <strong><b>John Coale<\/b><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/us-envoy-says-belarus-may-free-more-prisoners-next-month-2026-04-28\/\">told<\/a> Reuters that he is discussing a possible visit by <strong><b>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/b><\/strong> to the United States and the opening of a U.S. embassy in Minsk.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are talking about it. I think it would be a good step,\u201d<\/em> Coale said about a possible visit by Lukashenka to the United States. <em>\u201cI have also mentioned opening a U.S. embassy in Minsk. All these issues are on the table. And I am optimistic that it will happen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Coale, Lukashenka wants Belarus to be \u201ca member of the family of European nations.\u201d The release of political prisoners could help Minsk move in this direction, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. envoy also said that he plans to travel to Belarus in two to three weeks and <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/john-coale-hopes-to-secure-release-of-some-prisoners-within-the-next-month\">expects to secure the release of some political prisoners<\/a> within a month.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, during the last meeting between Coale and Lukashenka, the latter said that <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-says-trump-invited-him-to-his-home-in-florida\"><strong><b>Donald Trump<\/b><\/strong><\/a> had invited him to his residence in Florida to discuss a \u201cmajor deal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. presidential envoy for Belarus John Coale told Reuters that he is discussing a possible visit by Aliaksandr Lukashenka to the United States and the opening of a U.S. embassy in Minsk. \u201cWe are talking about it. I think it would be a good step,\u201d Coale said about a possible visit by Lukashenka to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":495645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69f193159843b.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Coale: Lukashenka Visit To The U.S. Under Discussion"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537518","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}