The foreign policy of the Republic of Belarus is based on active, pragmatic and balanced cooperation and interaction with all the countries of the World community, on the observance of conventional norms of the International law and taken international responsibilities. As a recognized independent and sovereign state the Republic of Belarus performs an active international work including the sphere of disarmament and control over armament. In 1949 the Belorussian SSR as a member of UNO became a participant in some multilateral agreements in this sphere including the Air, space and water nuclear tests ban, August 6, 1963; Agreement on nuclear and other mass destruction weapons' storage, September 6, 1971; Convention on the development, manufacturing and storage of bacteriological (biological) and toxic weapons and their dismantling, April 10, 1972 and some others.
    For the Republic of Belarus as a country which voluntarily renounced nuclear weapon and which has a constitutionally stated status of a nuclear-free state the issues of international-agreement base are the priorities in the political and military sphere.