Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Belarus)
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus ' onMouseout='HidePop("1732")' href="/topics/BGN/PCGN_romanization_of_Belarusian">BGN/PCGN
: Ministerstva zamezhnykh spraw Respubliki Belarus’; , BGN/PCGN
: Ministerstvo inostrannykh del Respubliki Belarus’) is the Belarusian government
ministry
which oversees the foreign relations
of Belarus
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The current Minister of Foreign Affairs is Sergei Martynov
. Previous Ministers include Andrei Sannikov
.
BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian
The BGN/PCGN romanization system for Belarusian is a method for romanization of Cyrillic Belarusian texts, that is, their transliteration into the Latin alphabet....
: Ministerstva zamezhnykh spraw Respubliki Belarus’; , BGN/PCGN
BGN/PCGN romanization of Russian
BGN/PCGN romanization system for Russian is a method for romanization of Cyrillic Russian texts, that is, their transliteration into the Latin alphabet as used in the English language...
: Ministerstvo inostrannykh del Respubliki Belarus’) is the Belarusian government
Government of Belarus
The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus is the executive branch of state power in Belarus, and it is appointed by the President of Belarus...
ministry
Ministry (government department)
A ministry is a specialised organisation responsible for a sector of government public administration, sometimes led by a minister or a senior public servant, that can have responsibility for one or more departments, agencies, bureaus, commissions or other smaller executive, advisory, managerial or...
which oversees the foreign relations
Foreign policy
A country's foreign policy, also called the foreign relations policy, consists of self-interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve its goals within international relations milieu. The approaches are strategically employed to interact with other countries...
of Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
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The current Minister of Foreign Affairs is Sergei Martynov
Sergei Martynov (politician)
Sergei Nikolaevich Martynov is the current Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belarus appointed in March 2003. He was born on February 22, 1953 in Gyumri, Armenian SSR....
. Previous Ministers include Andrei Sannikov
Andrei Sannikov
Andrei Olegovich Sannikov is a Belarusian politician and activist. In the early 1990s, he headed the Belarusian delegation on Nuclear and Conventional Weapons Armament Negotiations, also serving as the Belarusian diplomat to Switzerland. From 1995 to 1996, he served as Deputy Foreign Minister of...
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