On April 25, 2016 the Vice Chairman of the NASB Presidium Sergei Ya. Kilin met with Chief Scientific Adviser Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom Robin Grimes and the UK Ambassador to the Republic of Belarus Fiona Gibb. The parties held negotiations on expansion scientific and technological cooperation between the National Academy of Sciences and the United Kingdom, discussed possible directions of further scientific collaboration. Also guests were acquainted with the permanent exhibition of the NAS of Belarus "Achievements of Belarusian science to production".