{"id":575753,"date":"2026-09-11T14:56:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=575753"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T12:14:15","slug":"lukashenka-says-he-is-ready-to-meet-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-says-he-is-ready-to-meet-trump","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenka Says He Is Ready To Meet Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> said he is ready to meet US President Donald Trump<\/b>. In his view, such a meeting would be beneficial for Belarus. However, he wants to understand what the purpose of holding such a meeting would be. He said this today at the Obuz-Liasnouski training ground.<\/p>\n

According to him, he is also ready to work within the Peace Council format.<\/p>\n

“Okay, let’s do it together. But not just to play along there \u2014 as a decoration. That doesn’t work for me. I tell them directly that I am not ready to meet Donald Trump for that purpose.<\/i><\/p>\n

To meet with him (that would be good, it would be very useful for Belarus), you need to understand: we meet, and then what (next. \u2014 ed.)? Say hello and go our separate ways?”<\/em> he said, according to his press service.<\/p>\n

Lukashenka confirmed that the possibility of a deal with the United States remains on the table.<\/p>\n

“We are ready for both a small deal and a big deal”<\/i>, he said.<\/p>\n

Lukashenka noted that initially, contacts with the United States concerned political prisoners exclusively. He also made a disparaging remark about Siarhei Tsikhanouski<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“For God’s sake, take them. Everyone was worried: ‘Oh, Tsikhanouski has been released!’ And where is Seryozha? They can’t find him. Nobody needs him”<\/i>, he said.<\/p>\n

He also outlined topics for discussions with the United States.<\/p>\n

“We are open. They have lifted sanctions on a number of our enterprises and are ready to lift more. There are a lot of issues,”<\/i> the head of state said. “Embassies \u2014 let’s discuss how we will resume [their work]. Nuclear materials and other things \u2014 we have a whole program there \u2014 please. If you want to buy potash fertilizers from us (if you want to) \u2014 please.”<\/i><\/p>\n

“I said openly that I am a Trumpist, I supported Trump. I see his mistakes. I tell this directly to his best friend, who is supposed to come to us”<\/i>, he said.<\/p>\n

Lukashenka also said today that Belarus is supplying the United States with a shipment of potash fertilizers.<\/a> In addition, he demanded the return of more than $40 million that has been “stuck” at the US-based Citibank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aliaksandr Lukashenka said he is ready to meet US President Donald Trump. In his view, such a meeting would be beneficial for Belarus. However, he wants to understand what the purpose of holding such a meeting would be. He said this today at the Obuz-Liasnouski training ground. According to him, he is also ready to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":575752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa3f09ea404d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lukashenka Says He Is Ready To Meet Trump"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-575753","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\/575753","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=575753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}