On May 13, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya held a phone call in Vilnius with the Special Envoy of the United States to Belarus, John Coale, and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Eastern Europe, Christopher Smith.
“I am grateful for today’s phone call with John Coale and Christopher Smith. I expressed my sincere gratitude to President Trump and his team for helping secure the release of more than 500 political prisoners in Belarus.
President Donald Trump has stated that the goal is to secure the release of them all, and I am confident in the success of these humanitarian efforts”.
