{"id":576661,"date":"2026-09-15T11:57:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=576661"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:48:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:48:55","slug":"lukashenka-invites-turchyn-to-talks-with-coale-to-report-on-the-results-of-contacts-in-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-invites-turchyn-to-talks-with-coale-to-report-on-the-results-of-contacts-in-practice","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenka Invites Turchyn to Talks With Coale to \u201cReport on the Results of Contacts in Practice\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/strong> invited Belarusian Prime Minister <strong>Aliaksandr Turchyn<\/strong> to talks with <strong>John Coale<\/strong> to review the implementation of previous agreements. He said this while welcoming the U.S. president\u2019s special envoy.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cDear John, we live far apart, so we do not see each other often. But I welcome you to Belarus. We did not hide the fact that you would come to us. And you did not particularly hide it either, we knew about it.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Our people knew that you were coming. I must tell you that society views your visits with great interest. And our neighbors and other heads of state are closely following our meeting,\u201d<\/i> Lukashenka stressed.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAs you can see, our company has expanded somewhat. I asked the prime minister to come so that he could report in detail on the results of our previous contacts in practice,\u201d<\/i> he added.<\/p>\n<p>Coale, in turn, conveyed greetings from <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, noting that he <em>\u201cfully supports everything that we are doing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Turchyn is not the only \u201cnewcomer\u201d at the negotiating table. The U.S. side is also represented by <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/us-official-who-replaced-chris-smith-arrived-in-minsk-with-coale\"><strong>Christopher Panico<\/strong><\/a>, who replaced <strong>Chris Smith<\/strong>, who recently left the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>Also present in Lukashenka\u2019s office were participants in previous meetings: KGB Chairman <strong>Ivan Tertel<\/strong>, Belarus\u2019 Permanent Representative to the UN <strong>Valiantsin Rybakou<\/strong> and <strong>Sarah Ryan<\/strong>, Strategic Communications Adviser at the Office of the Special Envoys for Belarus and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that in March, during Coale\u2019s previous visit to Minsk, it was announced that U.S. sanctions on Belarusian Potash Company, Belaruskali, the Ministry of Finance and a number of banks would be lifted. On Friday, Lukashenka said that Belarus was completing the shipment of a batch of potash fertilizers to the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliaksandr Lukashenka invited Belarusian Prime Minister Aliaksandr Turchyn to talks with John Coale to review the implementation of previous agreements. He said this while welcoming the U.S. president\u2019s special envoy. \u201cDear John, we live far apart, so we do not see each other often. But I welcome you to Belarus. We did not hide the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":576660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa9148bc3fde.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lukashenka Invites Turchyn to Talks With Coale to \u201cReport on the Results of Contacts in Practice\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143118,144236],"class_list":["post-576661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-valentin-rybakov"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576661","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=576661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}