Belarusian deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Ambrazevich met with UN General Assembly President Csaba Korosi in New York on Tuesday to discuss regional and international security.
"Ambrazevich briefed the president of the UN General Assembly about plans to hold an international conference on the future of Eurasian security in Minsk in the second half of this year," the statement read.
Belarus will host the conference as the rotating chair of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a regional grouping of ex-Soviet republics — Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.