President of Belarus to take part in international conference on Eurasian security

The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will take part in the II Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security, which is taking place in Minsk on October 31 and November 1, BELTA reports.

The head of state is expected to speak at a high-level session that opens the conference.

It is also planned that high-ranking guests will speak at it. They will include the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Peter Szijjarto, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of Syria Bassam Sabbagh. There will also be heads of international organizations of our region - the Secretaries General of the CSTO, CICA, the CIS, and the State Secretary of the Union State.

The conference is expected to be attended by about 600 participants from more than 40 countries. These are high-ranking guests from all over Greater Eurasia, representatives of the OSCE, CIS, SCO countries, heads of a number of international organizations, heads and high-ranking experts of leading think tanks of the entire Eurasian region.

One hundred and fifty Belarusian and foreign journalists have been accredited to cover the events of the conference.

Anatoly Glaz, Press Secretary of the Foreign Ministry, shared his expectations from the conference with BELTA: "The conference participants and Belarus as the host country expect that the event will allow us to discuss and jointly outline the promising contours of future Eurasian security, the future security of our region, as well as discuss 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."

Two BELTA exhibitions, "Sovereign Belarus" and "Belarus. Takeoff", are presented at the venue of the high-level session.