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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he would be ready to meet U.S. President Donald Trump once a “big deal” between the two countries has been prepared.
“We are ready for a deal, but it needs to be prepared in a way that reflects the interests of both the United States and Belarus,” Lukashenko said in an interview with Russian TV network RT, excerpts of which were published on Sunday.
Lukashenko is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and has supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, although without sending Belarusian troops to fight there.
In March, Trump’s envoy John Coale said that the Belarusian president may soon visit the United States, a trip that would signal a breakthrough for the veteran authoritarian leader after years of being treated as a pariah because of human rights abuses and his backing for Putin in the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he would be ready to meet U.S. President Donald Trump once a “big deal” between the two countries has been prepared.“We are ready for a deal, but it needs to be prepared in a way that reflects the interests of both the United States and Belarus,” Lukashenko said in an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nLukashenko says meeting with Trump possible once 'big deal' is ready - Metro Plus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/04\/19\/lukashenko-says-meeting-with-trump-possible-once-big-deal-is-ready\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lukashenko says meeting with Trump possible once 'big deal' is ready - 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