{"id":555290,"date":"2026-06-29T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=555290"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:51:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:51:53","slug":"lithuania-s-prime-ministerial-candidate-comments-on-relations-with-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuania-s-prime-ministerial-candidate-comments-on-relations-with-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania&#8217;s Prime Ministerial Candidate Comments on Relations With Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuania&#8217;s prime minister-designate and leader of the ruling Social Democratic Party, <strong><b>Mindaugas Sinkevi\u010dius<\/b><\/strong>, declined to reveal his plans regarding sanctions against Belarus during a meeting with lawmakers from the opposition Homeland Union\u2013Lithuanian Christian Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/naujienos\/lietuvoje\/2\/2975075\/sinkeviciaus-akistata-su-konservatoriais-klausimas-del-2-milijardu-ir-baltarusisku-trasu\">LRT<\/a> reported, when discussing relations with Minsk and pressure from the United States over sanctions, Sinkevi\u010dius said Lithuania should seek to maintain good relations with Washington.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Partnership is not one-sided: we provide support, not just gratitude. But I do not think Belarus is a major subject of negotiations,&#8221;<\/i> he said, recalling that Lithuania had backed the initiative concerning the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>However, as LRT notes, the politician did not specify how the issue of extending European sanctions on Belarusian fertilisers would be addressed in February.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Lithuanian Seimas is expected to approve Mindaugas Sinkevi\u010dius as prime minister. He will then have time to form a cabinet and present it to parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania&#8217;s prime minister-designate and leader of the ruling Social Democratic Party, Mindaugas Sinkevi\u010dius, declined to reveal his plans regarding sanctions against Belarus during a meeting with lawmakers from the opposition Homeland Union\u2013Lithuanian Christian Democrats. As LRT reported, when discussing relations with Minsk and pressure from the United States over sanctions, Sinkevi\u010dius said Lithuania should seek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":555289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a424e4e31d59.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuania\u2019s Prime Ministerial Candidate Comments on Relations With Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-555290","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\/555290","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=555290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}