On 16 October 2018, the Anti-Trafficking Division of the Council of Europe, in co-operation with the Department for Combatting Trafficking in Human of the Ministry of the Interior of Belarus, organised a round-table meeting in Minsk to discuss progress in the implementation of the recommendations made by the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) in its first evaluation report on Belarus.

The meeting brought together 34 representatives of relevant ministries and agencies, non-governmental organisations and the International Organization of Migration (IOM).

Belarus is expected to report to the Committee of the Parties to the Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings on the measures taken to comply with GRETA’s recommendations by 14 October 2019. The second round of evaluation of the implementation of the Convention by Belarus will take place in the course of 2020.