{"id":148461,"date":"2025-07-28T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/148461\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"return-of-us-ambassador-to-minsk-not-under-discussion-at-this-point-belarusian-diplomat-says","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/148461\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of US ambassador to Minsk not under discussion at this point, Belarusian diplomat says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>July 28,&nbsp;<em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong>&nbsp;Although the Belarusian embassy engages with the US administration, the return of ambassadors is not under discussion at this point, Pavie\u0142 \u0160yd\u0142o\u016dski, the Belarusian charge d\u2019affaires in the United States, has told <em>BelTA<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 2021, Minsk withdrew its consent to the appointment of Julie Fischer, charge d\u2019affaires at the time, as ambassador and demanded that the US embassy cut its staff in Belarus. Since then the diplomatic missions have been headed by charges d\u2019affaires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belarus is under US sanctions, but Minsk has allegedly been involved in non-public contacts with Washington for a year, with engagement beginning under the administration of President Joe Biden.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A US delegation headed by Keith Kellogg, US President Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy for Ukraine, met with Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka in Minsk on June 21, in the first high-level official meeting in five years after the latter declared himself the winner in the disputed 2020 election. Following this visit, Minsk released 14 prisoners, including the prominent opposition figure Siarhiej Cichano\u016dski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 28,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Although the Belarusian embassy engages with the US administration, the return of ambassadors is not under discussion at this point, Pavie\u0142 \u0160yd\u0142o\u016dski, the Belarusian charge d\u2019affaires in the United States, has told BelTA. In August 2021, Minsk withdrew its consent to the appointment of Julie Fischer, charge d\u2019affaires at the time, as ambassador and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":126504,"template":"","rubric":[14],"class_list":["post-148461","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Return of US ambassador to Minsk not under discussion at this point, Belarusian diplomat says | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 28,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Although the Belarusian embassy engages with the US administration, the return of ambassadors is not under discussion at this\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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