{"id":602656,"date":"2026-11-12T16:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=602656"},"modified":"2026-11-12T17:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T14:03:22","slug":"uk-charge-d-affaires-expresses-readiness-to-gradually-develop-military-dialogue-with-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/uk-charge-d-affaires-expresses-readiness-to-gradually-develop-military-dialogue-with-belarus","title":{"rendered":"UK Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires Expresses Readiness To Gradually Develop Military Dialogue With Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The United Kingdom has expressed readiness to gradually develop dialogue with Belarus in the military sphere. This was stated by the UK\u2019s Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires in Belarus, <strong>William Longhurst<\/strong>, at a meeting with <strong>Valery Ravenka<\/strong>, Head of the International Military Cooperation Department of the Belarusian Defence Ministry, the ministry\u2019s press service <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/modmilby\/60184\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was also attended by William George, a major and defence attach\u00e9 at the British Embassy in Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Defence Ministry, Revenko told the British diplomat about Belarus\u2019s actions <i>\u201caimed at reducing tensions\u201d<\/i> in Europe and <i>\u201crestoring constructive contacts with other countries through their defence ministries\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWilliam Longhurst expressed the British side\u2019s readiness to gradually develop Belarusian-British dialogue in the military sphere,\u201d<\/i> the press release said.<\/p>\n<p>William Longhurst took up his post in Minsk in late July 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_15-20-34.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-602637\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_15-20-34-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_15-20-34-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_15-20-34-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_15-20-34.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_14-21-08-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-602635\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_14-21-08-4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_14-21-08-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_14-21-08-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_14-21-08-4.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_14-21-08-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-602634\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_14-21-08-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_14-21-08-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_14-21-08-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_14-21-08-3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_14-21-08-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-602633\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_14-21-08-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_14-21-08-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_14-21-08-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_2026-11-12_14-21-08-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom has expressed readiness to gradually develop dialogue with Belarus in the military sphere. This was stated by the UK\u2019s Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires in Belarus, William Longhurst, at a meeting with Valery Ravenka, Head of the International Military Cooperation Department of the Belarusian Defence Ministry, the ministry\u2019s press service reports. The meeting was also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":602661,"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\/6af5c72e11ff4.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"UK Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires Expresses Readiness To Gradually Develop Military Dialogue With Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143291],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-602656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-army","tag-belarus"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602656","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=602656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602662,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602656\/revisions\/602662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}