{"id":592946,"date":"2026-10-22T16:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=592946"},"modified":"2026-10-23T11:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:18:27","slug":"a-handshake-with-a-representative-of-an-international-criminal-latushka-disappointed-by-slovak-president-s-decision-to-receive-belarusian-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/a-handshake-with-a-representative-of-an-international-criminal-latushka-disappointed-by-slovak-president-s-decision-to-receive-belarusian-ambassador","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Handshake With a Representative of an International Criminal\u201d \u2014 Latushka Disappointed by Slovak President\u2019s Decision to Receive Belarusian Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Deputy Head of the United Transitional Cabinet (UTC) <b>Pavel Latushka<\/b> expressed disappointment over Slovak President <b>Peter Pellegrini<\/b>\u2019s decision to accept the credentials of the Belarusian ambassador.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA handshake with a representative of an international criminal is unacceptable to me as a Belarusian,\u201d<\/em> Latushka said.<\/p>\n<p>The UTC deputy head believes that maintaining contacts with the Lukashenka regime while repression continues in Belarus runs counter to democratic values.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhile unprecedented, wide-scale political repression continues in Belarus, resuming contacts with the regime is a contrary of the democratic values the Belarusian people are fighting for &amp; on which the European Union is built.<br \/>\nSlovakia, like other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, knows what it means to fight for freedom against totalitarianism &amp; how important allies are in this just struggle, and I hope it will not forget the lessons of its very recent history,\u201d<\/em> Latushka <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pavellatushka\/status\/2112937393275773209\">wrote<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>It should be recalled that on October 21, Belarusian Ambassador to Slovakia <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-ambassador-presents-credentials-to-slovak-president\"><b>Ihar Fisenka<\/b> presented his credentials<\/a> to Slovak President <b>Peter Pellegrini<\/b>. The Slovak president welcomed the decision to resume the operation of Belarus\u2019 embassy in Bratislava and expressed support for developing bilateral relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Head of the United Transitional Cabinet (UTC) Pavel Latushka expressed disappointment over Slovak President Peter Pellegrini\u2019s decision to accept the credentials of the Belarusian ambassador. \u201cA handshake with a representative of an international criminal is unacceptable to me as a Belarusian,\u201d Latushka said. The UTC deputy head believes that maintaining contacts with the Lukashenka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":492480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6adb1857509cd.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"\u201cA Handshake With a Representative of an International Criminal\u201d \u2014 Latushka Disappointed by Slovak President\u2019s Decision to Receive Belarusian Ambassador"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-592946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592946","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=592946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592949,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592946\/revisions\/592949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}