"Great Deal" is planned to delay "many political prisoners" in Washington and Minsk, and US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Smith said in Vilnius on February 13, RBC reports. with reference to:
Smith arrived in Vilnius from Belarus, where he met with President Alexander Lukashenko on February 12.
This is the first meeting of the President of Belarus and a high-ranking State Department official in the last five years and can become the beginning of the "significant warming" in the relations between the two countries, the newspaper said.
Smith met with Lukashenko, then left for Vilnius US citizen and two Belarusian "political prisoners" released by Minsk, NYT writes.
Speaking at the US Embassy in Lithuania, the diplomat welcomed the successful completion of the "Special Action" to the release of prisoners "Huge victory and response to the slogan" through the "Peace of Peace" of Trump.
