Reuters: Kellogo is planning a trip to Belarus and meeting with Lukashenko
Cat Kellogg, photo Bloomberg Via Getty Images
According to Reuters, US Presidential Representative for Ukraine, Kit Kellogg, plans to visit Belarus in the coming days to meet her self -proclaimed President Alexander Lukashenko.
Source: Reuters With reference to four sources
Details: Officially, the visit about the visit has not been published.
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According to two sources, the exact agenda of the meeting is unknown, although Kellog in private conversations called this trip a step that can help launch the process of peace negotiations on the end of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
The US Department of Belarus in Washington refused to comment. Kellogo and White House did not answer the comments queries.
Reuters notes that planning such trips requires careful negotiations, and it is possible that it can be canceled or changed at the last moment.
If Kellogo meets Lukashenko, he will become the highest US official who will visit an authoritarian state in recent years, according to the publication.
In 2020, during the first term Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Belarus, which was then a visit to the highest level from the United States to this country over the last 20 years. The trip was part of the campaign of the first Trump administration aimed at improving relations with Belarus at a time when the relations between Minsk and Moscow were at the lowest point.
That preceded: June 12 Cat Kelloggus stated that tried to convey to US President Donald Trump The importance of the efforts of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to achieve peace.
