MINSK, 31 October (BelTA) – Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko is set to take part in the 2nd Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security which is taking place in the Belarusian capital on 31 October-1 November, BelTA has learned.
The Belarusian head of state is expected to speak at the high-level session that will open the conference.
Speaking at it will be high-level guests, including Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Peter Szijjarto, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Bassam Sabbagh. Attending the conference will also be heads of international organizations of our region - secretaries general of the CSTO, CICA, CIS, the state secretary of the Union State.
It is expected that the conference will be attended by over 60 participants from more than 40 countries. These are high-ranking officials from all over Eurasia, representatives of the OSCE, CIS, SCO countries, heads of a number of international organizations, heads and high-ranking experts of the leading think tanks of the entire Eurasian region.
Some 150 Belarusian and foreign journalists have been accredited to cover the event.
Earlier, press secretary of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Anatoly Glaz told BelTA: “The conference participants and Belarus as a hosting country expect that the event will be used as an opportunity to discuss and outline the promising contours of future Eurasian security, future security of our region, and also to consider the initiative put forward by the Republic of Belarus and supported by our strategic partner the Russian Federation to develop a Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st century.”
BelTA’s two exhibitions “Sovereign Belarus” and “Belarus. Takeoff” will be on display at the high-level session venue.
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