{"id":400239,"date":"2020-08-21T23:59:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T20:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=400239"},"modified":"2020-08-21T23:59:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T20:59:47","slug":"belarus-president-shoots-down-french-mediation-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/belarus-president-shoots-down-french-mediation-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus: President shoots down French mediation offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Moscow(SONNA)-<\/strong>Belarus&#8217; president on Friday shot down France\u2019s offer to mediate between the government and opposition in the wake of a controversial election, pointing instead to France\u2019s own domestic problems.<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron \u201cwants to mediate negotiations in Belarus. First let me come, I\u2019ll be a mediator between the Yellow Vests and Macron,&#8221; Alexander Lukashenko said at a rally in Minsk, referring to the iconic opposition movement that led months of anti-government protests in France.<\/p>\n<p>He slammed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\u2019s criticism of Belarus after the Aug. 9 election, which Lukashenko won by a contested landslide, saying the US should first \u201csort out their own problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that the protests in Belarus were orchestrated from abroad to create a buffer zone between Russia and the rest of Europe, made up of the three Baltic States, Belarus, and Ukraine, adding that Belarus is &#8220;the last component preventing completion of the circuit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The US plans all this and directs it, while the Europeans play along,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cYou see, when there\u2019s unrest nearby and tanks begin to move and planes fly, that\u2019s no accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The protests broke out after Lukashenko was declared the winner of the Aug. 9 elections, but several opposition candidates have challenged the results.<\/p>\n<p>Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who came in second, has left the country amid rumors that she was forced to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The situation in Belarus provoked deep concern throughout Europe, with leaders demanding Lukashenko launch a dialogue with the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Source; A.A.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow(SONNA)-Belarus&#8217; president on Friday shot down France\u2019s offer to mediate between the government and opposition in the wake of a controversial election, pointing instead to France\u2019s own domestic problems. French President Emmanuel Macron \u201cwants to mediate negotiations in Belarus. First let me come, I\u2019ll be a mediator between the Yellow Vests and Macron,&#8221; Alexander Lukashenko [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400241,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400239\/revisions\/400241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}