On August 26, 2024 the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, Maxim Ryzhenkov, held a meeting with the CIS Secretary General, Sergei Lebedev.
During the meeting, the sides discussed the preparation for the upcoming meetings of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers, Council of Heads of Government and Council of Heads of State in the second half of the year.
M.Ryzhenkov reiterated that cooperation within the CIS is one of the priority vectors of Belarusian foreign policy, stressing the interest in the comprehensive expansion of interaction in the political, economic, cultural, humanitarian and security spheres.