{"id":575435,"date":"2026-09-10T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=575435"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:24:33","slug":"new-swiss-ambassador-arrives-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/new-swiss-ambassador-arrives-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"New Swiss Ambassador Arrives in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Switzerland&#8217;s new ambassador, <strong>Stefan Estermann<\/strong>, has arrived in Belarus.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;My wife and I received a very warm welcome and immediately felt at home here. I am looking forward to starting my new work, meeting interesting people and engaging in conversations,&#8221;<\/em> Estermann <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/2548109365633994\">said<\/a> in a video published by the embassy.<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Estermann has worked for Switzerland&#8217;s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs since 1996. He has served in Ukraine and Russia and was ambassador to Croatia and Greece. He speaks German, French, English, Czech and Russian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland&#8217;s new ambassador, Stefan Estermann, has arrived in Belarus. &#8220;My wife and I received a very warm welcome and immediately felt at home here. I am looking forward to starting my new work, meeting interesting people and engaging in conversations,&#8221; Estermann said in a video published by the embassy. Stefan Estermann has worked for Switzerland&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":575434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa39094d20f0.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"New Swiss Ambassador Arrives in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-575435","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\/575435","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=575435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}