During the visit of the delegation led by the State Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus Stanislav Zas on June 4, regular bilateral consultations were held between the Office of the Security Council under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the State Secretariat of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus.

During the consultations, issues of practical implementation of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Security Council under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the State Secretariat of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus of 2017, as well as the roadmap on cooperation between the two countries in security for 2019-2020 were considered.

It was noted that that a qualitatively new stage in the development of the Uzbek-Belarusian relations has given practical meaning to the joint work in many areas of cooperation in the field of security.

In order to establish cooperation in the organization of joint applied research and to develop effective practical recommendations on topical issues of security and sustainable development during the consultations the parties agreed on a draft Memorandum of Understanding between the Institute for Strategic and regional studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (ISRS) and the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS).