{"id":570843,"date":"2026-08-25T10:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=570843"},"modified":"2026-08-25T11:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:16:54","slug":"lithuanian-parliament-speaker-congratulates-belarusians-on-independence-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-parliament-speaker-congratulates-belarusians-on-independence-anniversary","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Parliament Speaker Congratulates Belarusians On Independence Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian Parliament Speaker <strong>Juozas Olekas<\/strong> began today\u2019s parliamentary session by congratulating Belarusians on another anniversary of the country\u2019s independence. Thirty-five years ago, on Aug. 25, 1991, the Supreme Council of the BSSR voted to give constitutional law status to the Declaration of State Sovereignty, adopted on July 27, 1990.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI want to begin the session by congratulating our neighbors \u2014 the people of Belarus. Aug. 25 is an extremely important date in the history of independent Belarus,\u201d<\/em> he said, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/parlamentbel\/16582\">the Parliamentary Channel reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Olekas said today\u2019s date was an opportunity to once again express strong support for Belarus\u2019 democratic forces, and to wish them to maintain unity, ensure close coordination of their actions and remain as close as possible to the Belarusian people.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe sincerely hope for the day when the rule of law is restored in Belarus, the people of the country can elect a president and parliament in free and fair elections, and Belarus becomes a full and respected member of our European family,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian Parliament Speaker Juozas Olekas began today\u2019s parliamentary session by congratulating Belarusians on another anniversary of the country\u2019s independence. Thirty-five years ago, on Aug. 25, 1991, the Supreme Council of the BSSR voted to give constitutional law status to the Declaration of State Sovereignty, adopted on July 27, 1990. \u201cI want to begin the session [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":570842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a8d4f7ad0ba8.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian Parliament Speaker Congratulates Belarusians On Independence Anniversary"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-570843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570843","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=570843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}