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(MENAFN) US President Donald Trump said Sunday he will nominate John Coale, his current envoy for Belarus, as special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, placing the diplomat at the head of Washington's effort to free Americans held abroad....

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(MENAFN) US President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he is nominating John Coale, his current envoy to Belarus, to become the next special presidential envoy for hostage affairs. “I am pleased to announce that John Coale, Esq., a great lawyer...

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(MENAFN) Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov declared on Saturday that Minsk stands ready to help mediate an end to the war in Ukraine, insisting that any durable resolution must first tackle what he called the conflict's underlying...

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(MENAFN) Belarus is prepared to help bring about negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov said Saturday, arguing that any durable agreement must address what he described as the conflict’s “root causes.”...

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(MENAFN) Allowing Belarusian potash fertilizer to transit Lithuania in violation of EU sanctions would amount to a "moral humiliation," a senior adviser to Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said Wednesday, as US talks over purchasing the...

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(MENAFN) US President Donald Trump said Monday that Washington is working toward what he described as a major agreement to purchase potash from Belarus, potentially at prices below those currently paid for supplies from Canada. "The pricing would...