On 19 December 2019, Kseniya Panteley, the Research Scientist of the National Coordination Centre on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing, the Institute of Genetics and Cytology, NAS of Belarus, also Tatiana Zheleznova, Advisor of the Biological and Landscape Diversity Department, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, and Tatiana Volodina, Head of the Department  of Folkloristics and the Culture of Slavic Peoples, the Centre for the Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature Research, NAS of Belarus, spoke about the Nagoya Protocol as guests of the programme “Red Hot Microphone” led by Elena Vakhromeyeva and Dmitry Rubashnyj – about the benefits the society and state can derive from it and what should be done in order the Protocol could start being operational.