Foreign Minister Vladimir Senko is expected to travel to NATO headquarters in Brussels on Sunday for the signing, Interfax reported.
Belarus officials said they hope the partnership program will give the country access to new technologies for defense conversion, as well as exchanges of information and of military delegations.
The Security Council includes President Alexander Lukashenko, as well as the foreign, defense and security ministers, among others. Parliament's approval is not necessary, although it is likely that it will give it.
Only communist and ultranationalist factions oppose the move to join the NATO program.
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