{"id":584409,"date":"2026-10-02T16:12:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=584409"},"modified":"2026-10-02T16:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:48:03","slug":"french-mp-europe-s-security-cannot-be-ensured-without-resolving-belarus-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/french-mp-europe-s-security-cannot-be-ensured-without-resolving-belarus-crisis","title":{"rendered":"French MP: Europe\u2019s Security Cannot Be Ensured Without Resolving Belarus Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Europe\u2019s security cannot be ensured without resolving Belarus\u2019s domestic political crisis, said <strong>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Petit<\/strong>, head of the parliamentary group \u201cFor a Democratic Belarus\u201d and a member of the French National Assembly\u2019s Foreign Affairs Committee, at a meeting with <strong>Pavel Latushka<\/strong>, Deputy Head of the United Transitional Cabinet and Head of the National Anti-Crisis Management.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting focused on France\u2019s strategy and role in the EU\u2019s position on supporting Belarus\u2019s democratic forces, regional security issues, Lukashenka\u2019s role in supporting Russia\u2019s aggression against Ukraine, the importance of continuing pressure on the Lukashenka regime, and approaches to securing the release of Belarusian political prisoners, the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/CabinetBelarus\/5519\">United Transitional Cabinet reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Petit noted that Belarus is part of the solution to the regional crisis and that Europe\u2019s security cannot be ensured without resolving Belarus\u2019s domestic political crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Latushka presented a strategy toward Belarus: the United States is exerting pressure on the Lukashenka regime and securing the release of political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief, while the European Union is using pressure and sanctions to achieve systemic change in Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>The parties also discussed possible French support for holding a roundtable on a way out of Belarus\u2019s domestic political crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s security cannot be ensured without resolving Belarus\u2019s domestic political crisis, said Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Petit, head of the parliamentary group \u201cFor a Democratic Belarus\u201d and a member of the French National Assembly\u2019s Foreign Affairs Committee, at a meeting with Pavel Latushka, Deputy Head of the United Transitional Cabinet and Head of the National Anti-Crisis Management. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":584408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6abfb6170c86a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"French MP: Europe\u2019s Security Cannot Be Ensured Without Resolving Belarus Crisis"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584409","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=584409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584410,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584409\/revisions\/584410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}