Minsk to host 3rd International Conference on Eurasian Security

Delegations from more than 40 countries and seven international organisations will take part in the 3rd Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security.

The participants will include foreign ministers, heads of integration organisations, members of parliaments, and representatives of research institutes and think tanks from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, BELTA reports, citing the Belarusian Foreign Ministry.

Among those expected to attend in the Belarusian capital are Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, Myanmar’s Union Minister for Foreign Affairs Than Swe, China’s Special Envoy for Eurasian Affairs Sun Linjiang, Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Secretary General Nurlan Yermekbayev, Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) Secretary General Kairat Sarybay, and State Secretary of the Union State Sergey Glazyev.

More than 200 experts, military analysts, and researchers from leading academic centers in Belarus, Austria, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, China, India, Russia, Italy, Spain, Serbia, the United States, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Uzbekistan, and other countries will also take part.

Among them are retired Major General Rajendra Singh Yadav (India), Russian Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Alexey Shevtsov, Director of the International Dialogue Department at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy Alexandra Matas, Austrian political scientist Dieter Reinisch, and Professor Glenn Diesen of the University of South-Eastern Norway.

Deputy foreign ministers from Iran, India, Cambodia, Oman, the UAE, and Tajikistan, as well as the director of the Center for Foreign Policy Studies and International Initiatives under the Uzbek Foreign Ministry, are also expected to attend.

The conference will be held from October 28 to 29 under the theme “Global (Dis)Order and the Eurasian Security Puzzle.”

By Jeyhun Aghazada