{"id":576989,"date":"2026-09-16T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=576989"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:13:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:13:30","slug":"us-to-lift-sanctions-on-lakokraska-and-bellesbumprom-25-people-to-be-released-coale-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/us-to-lift-sanctions-on-lakokraska-and-bellesbumprom-25-people-to-be-released-coale-says","title":{"rendered":"US To Lift Sanctions On Lakokraska And Bellesbumprom; 25 People To Be Released, Coale Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The United States will lift sanctions on Lida-based OJSC Lakokraska, as well as the Bellesbumprom concern, U.S. President\u2019s Special Envoy <strong>John Coale<\/strong> said. At the same time, 25 people in Belarus will be released.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;As a gesture of goodwill, Belarus will release 25 people. The United States, in turn, will lift sanctions on two Belarusian companies \u2014 Lakokraska and Bellesbumprom,&#8221;<\/i> BELTA <a href=\"https:\/\/belta.by\/economics\/view\/koul-ssha-snimut-sanktsii-s-lakokraski-i-bellesbumproma-801268-2026\/\">quoted<\/a> Coale as saying.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that significant progress had been made during talks with <strong>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;It is a great pleasure to be in this country once again. We held our negotiations for a very long time. These negotiations will continue. We have made a great deal of progress, from my perspective. And we will continue our joint work,&#8221;<\/i> Coale said.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;We agreed on an interim agreement, an understanding,&#8221;<\/i> he added.<\/p>\n<p>Tsikhanouskaya\u2019s adviser <strong>Franak Via\u010dorka<\/strong> has already <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/tsikhanouskaya-s-adviser-reports-start-of-political-prisoner-releases-after-coale-s-visit-to-minsk\">reported<\/a> the start of the release of political prisoners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States will lift sanctions on Lida-based OJSC Lakokraska, as well as the Bellesbumprom concern, U.S. President\u2019s Special Envoy John Coale said. At the same time, 25 people in Belarus will be released. &#8220;As a gesture of goodwill, Belarus will release 25 people. The United States, in turn, will lift sanctions on two Belarusian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":526945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aaa5dbf02475.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"US To Lift Sanctions On Lakokraska And Bellesbumprom; 25 People To Be Released, Coale Says"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-576989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society","category-politics","tag-belarus"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576989","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=576989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}