{"id":601887,"date":"2026-11-11T14:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T11:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=601887"},"modified":"2026-11-11T14:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T11:59:33","slug":"exchange-of-driving-licences-and-joint-initiatives-discussed-by-tsikhanouskaya-s-office-and-lithuanian-seimas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/exchange-of-driving-licences-and-joint-initiatives-discussed-by-tsikhanouskaya-s-office-and-lithuanian-seimas","title":{"rendered":"Exchange of Driving Licences and Joint Initiatives Discussed by Tsikhanouskaya&#8217;s Office and Lithuanian Seimas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Dzianis Kuchynski<\/b>, Director of Tsikhanouskaya&#8217;s Office in Vilnius, and <b>Anatol Liabedzka<\/b>, Adviser on Constitutional Reform and Parliamentary Cooperation, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/tsikhanouskaya\/10008\">met<\/a> with <strong>Ruslanas Baranovas<\/strong>, head of the \u201cFor a Democratic Belarus\u201d group in the Lithuanian Seimas.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tsikhanouskaya&#8217;s Office, the sides discussed ways to find solutions for the recognition and exchange of Belarusian driving licences for European ones. They also discussed financial assistance for Belarusians raising children with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The parties discussed launching a School of Parliamentarism, holding expert meetings with Seimas members, and enabling Belarusians to participate in local elections in Lithuania. They also discussed joint work in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, as well as plans for Lithuania&#8217;s upcoming presidency of the Council of the European Union, which begins on January 1.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe greatly appreciate that support for Belarusians remains an important issue for the Lithuanian parliament. Next year, we want to expand our cooperation, particularly at the European level. Lithuania&#8217;s presidency of the Council of the EU opens up new opportunities in this regard, and it is important to make use of them,\u201d<\/i> Dzianis Kuchynski said.<\/p>\n<p>The sides also reviewed their work in 2026.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_601877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-601877\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-601877 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-11_14-48-29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-11_14-48-29.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-11_14-48-29-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-11_14-48-29-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-11_14-48-29-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-11_14-48-29-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-11_14-48-29-2048x1368.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-11_14-48-29-1198x800.jpg 1198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-601877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Tsikhanouskaya&#8217;s Office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dzianis Kuchynski, Director of Tsikhanouskaya&#8217;s Office in Vilnius, and Anatol Liabedzka, Adviser on Constitutional Reform and Parliamentary Cooperation, met with Ruslanas Baranovas, head of the \u201cFor a Democratic Belarus\u201d group in the Lithuanian Seimas. According to Tsikhanouskaya&#8217;s Office, the sides discussed ways to find solutions for the recognition and exchange of Belarusian driving licences for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":601889,"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\/11\/6af458a9c8dd4.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Exchange of Driving Licences and Joint Initiatives Discussed by Tsikhanouskaya\u2019s Office and Lithuanian Seimas"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society","category-politics"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601887","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=601887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601891,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601887\/revisions\/601891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}