{"id":577240,"date":"2026-09-16T17:48:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=577240"},"modified":"2026-09-16T19:22:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:22:01","slug":"lithuania-welcomes-u-s-efforts-to-reduce-tensions-in-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuania-welcomes-u-s-efforts-to-reduce-tensions-in-the-region","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania Welcomes U.S. Efforts to Reduce Tensions in the Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian Prime Minister <strong>Mindaugas Sinkevi\u010dius<\/strong> met with U.S. President&#8217;s Special Envoy <strong>John Coale<\/strong> on September 16 and said that U.S. engagement with Belarus had helped reduce tensions in the region.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<span class=\"font-chirp max-w-full whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-inherit text-[length:inherit] font-inherit\">I met with President Trump\u2019s Special Envoy <\/span><\/em><span class=\"font-chirp max-w-full whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-inherit text-[length:inherit] font-inherit\"><strong>John Coale <\/strong><\/span><em><span class=\"font-chirp max-w-full whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-inherit text-[length:inherit] font-inherit\">and thanked him for U.S. diplomatic engagement with Belarus. It has helped secure the release of political prisoners &amp; contributed to reducing hybrid threats &amp; regional tensions. The Lithuanian Government supports these U.S. efforts.<\/span>,\u201d<\/em> Sinkevi\u010dius <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mindaugassink\/status\/2100225527164355014\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>John Coale was in Belarus on September 15-16. As a result of his talks with <strong>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/strong>, 25 Belarusian political prisoners were released. They were brought from Belarus to Poland. In response to the releases, the United States is lifting sanctions on Lakokraska and Bellesbumprom. Coale also said that the release of political prisoners and the lifting of sanctions would continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevi\u010dius met with U.S. President&#8217;s Special Envoy John Coale on September 16 and said that U.S. engagement with Belarus had helped reduce tensions in the region. \u201cI met with President Trump\u2019s Special Envoy John Coale and thanked him for U.S. diplomatic engagement with Belarus. It has helped secure the release of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":577239,"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\/6aaac2454204e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuania Welcomes U.S. Efforts to Reduce Tensions in the Region"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-politics"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577240","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=577240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}