A meeting of the Commission on Culture, Science and Education of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia was held in Omsk, Russia.
Belarus calls on the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to stand in solidarity against sanctions, Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Aleinik said at a meeting of the SCO Foreign Ministers Council in Astana.
Cooperation in culture is essential to the strengthening of the CIS. Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said at a meeting of the CIS Heads of Government Council in Moscow.