{"id":577232,"date":"2026-09-16T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=577232"},"modified":"2026-09-16T19:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:16:06","slug":"coale-plans-next-visit-to-minsk-in-about-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/coale-plans-next-visit-to-minsk-in-about-a-month","title":{"rendered":"Coale Plans Next Visit to Minsk in About a Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>U.S. President&#8217;s Special Envoy <strong>John Coale<\/strong> plans to return to Minsk in about a month and hopes for the release of hundreds of political prisoners, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/finance\/us-envoy-hopes-belarus-will-release-hundreds-more-prisoners-next-month-2026-09-16\/\">Reuters reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Coale, he expects to visit Belarus again in about a month to secure the release of more political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI hope \u200bhundreds (are released). \u200bI \u2060don&#8217;t know. That&#8217;s my hope. I&#8217;m confident that we&#8217;ll get \u2060a \u200blot more out,\u201d<\/em> Coale told the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Today, following talks between Coale and <strong>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/full-list-of-political-prisoners-released-on-september-16-2026\/\">25 people were released<\/a>. They were taken from Belarus to Lithuania. In exchange, the United States will lift sanctions on Bellesbumprom and Lakokraska. Coale also said that <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/coale-says-release-of-prisoners-and-easing-of-sanctions-will-continue\/\">the release of political prisoners and the lifting of sanctions will continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President&#8217;s Special Envoy John Coale plans to return to Minsk in about a month and hopes for the release of hundreds of political prisoners, Reuters reports. According to Coale, he expects to visit Belarus again in about a month to secure the release of more political prisoners. \u201cI hope \u200bhundreds (are released). \u200bI \u2060don&#8217;t [&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\/6aaac0e2660ee.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Coale Plans Next Visit to Minsk in About a Month"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-577232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577232","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=577232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577232\/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=577232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}