National legislation of the Republic of Belarus provides two ways of legalization of the activity of a foreign (international) non-commercial organization on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.

Division of a foreign organization
NGO of a foreign state may create its organizational structure (sub-division, organization) on the territory of the Republic of Belarus. Such sub-divisions are created the same way as national public associations (the procedure as stated above). However, there are some peculiarities in comparison with the general procedure of establishment:

• registration of organizational structures (sub-divisions, organizations) of associations of foreign states shall be conducted by the Ministry of Justice only under the condition that no less than 10 members of this association are citizens of the Republic of Belarus and reside in the Republic of Belarus;
• in addition to the general package for state registration the following documents shall be handled to the registering body: minutes of  relevant bodies stating that citizens of the Republic of Belarus are accepted into members of these organizations, minutes on establishment of organizational structures on the territory of the Republic of Belarus and a copy of statute attested by a state body, copies of passports certified by notary for the confirmation of the citizenship and residence of Belarusian members of the association.

Representation office of a foreign organization
Interests of a foreign organization in the Republic of Belarus may be represented through the representation office on the territory of the republic. In the Republic of Belarus, the activity of foreign organizations, which do not have their representation offices, shall be is prohibited. Representation office of the organization on the territory of the Republic of Belarus is a separate sub-division which protects and represents interests of the organization and conducts other functions not contradictive to the legislation of the Republic of Belarus. Representation offices do not have status of legal entities, they use the property of the parent legal entity. They do not conduct activities on their behalf, instead, they act in interests of a parent organization and implement (represent) its programs and projects on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
In accordance with the Civil Code of the Republic of Belarus, establishment of representation offices of foreign organizations which act to overthrow or violently change the constitutional system, disrupt the integrity and security of state, propagate war, violence, national, religious, racial hatred and whose activities may damage rights and legal interests of citizens shall be  prohibited. However, the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No.929 "On procedure of opening and activity of representation offices of foreign organizations" adopted on 22.07.1997 (with changes and amendments of 22.05.2004) defined the purposes for opening the representation office of a foreign organization. In practice, registration of representation offices of foreign organizations which have purposes, other than listed in the mentioned Resolution, is very difficult.
Representation offices may be opened with a purpose of conducting activities on behalf of the organization they represent (the name of represented organization shall be stated in permission to open the representation office), such purposes are:

• social support and protection of citizens, including improvement of material status of indigenous, social rehabilitation of unemployed, handicapped and others, who are not able to implement their capacities and enjoy their rights and legal interests without assistance due to their physical or intellectual abilities;
• helping to the population to overcome the consequences of natural disasters, ecological, industrial and other catastrophes, prevention of accidents;
• providing help to victims of natural disasters, ecological, industrial and other catastrophes, social, ethnic, religious conflicts, victims of repressions, refugees and forced immigrants;
• assisting to strengthening of peace, friendship and consent between people, prevention of social, ethnic and religious conflicts;
• assistance to strengthening the family prestige in the society;
• assistance to protection of motherhood, childhood and fatherhood;
• assistance to activities in field of education, science, culture, art, spiritual development of a person;
• assistance to activities in field of preventive measures and protection of health, as well as popularizing healthy lifestyle, improvement of moral and psychic state of citizens;
• assistance to activities in field of physical culture and popular sport;
• protection of environment and protection of animals;
• protection and proper maintainment of buildings, other objects and territories of historical, cultural, religious or environmental significance, and burial places;
• other publicly useful purposes.

Representation offices of educational organizations can be opened with purposes of advertising and distributing informational, studying the experience of educational organizations in the Republic of Belarus, assisting in conclusion of treaties on cooperation between educational organizations, assistance to exchange of experience and information in field of education and science.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with interested state agencies issues permissions for the establishment of representation offices which purport other publicly useful purposes.
Activity of the representation office of a non-commercial organization which purports the mentioned purposes shall be conducted on the basis of programs and projects, which correspond with the priority directions of organization’s activity and have been certified by its supreme administrative body.
The program and project of the representation office of the organization is a complex of events directed at solving certain tasks corresponding with purposes of the representation office. The set of events shall also provide deadlines and resources for the fulfillment of the tasks.
Within the framework of programs and projects, the representation offices may provide financial, material and other resources (grants) to public associations (organizations) and citizens. Providing grants outside the programs implemented by representation offices shall be prohibited.

Permission to open representation office shall be issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus. As a rule, it is issued for a three-year term with a possibility to prolong the term, under the condition that organization applies to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs no later than a month before the expiry of the permission for establishment of representation office. The term of accreditation of the representation offices of regions, lands or other administrative structures, establishments and organizations of foreign states established on the basis of international treaties of the Republic of Belarus is not limited. To be registered, a representation office needs a permission, which shall be issued within 30 days after the moment of application.
Several interested organizations can open a joint  representation office.
To receive a permission to open a representation office the organization shall handle the following papers into the Ministry of Foreign affairs:
1. Application stating:

• purpose (purposes) of establishment of the representation office;
• full name of the organization;
• date of establishment of the organization;
• address of the main office;
• description of activities of the organization;
• information about individuals entitled to conduct activities on behalf of the organization in the Republic of Belarus.

2. Copies of statutorial documents of the organization, legalized  under stated procedure.
3. Copy of documents confirming state registration of the organization in the relevant agency of the applicant state (extract from trade register, certificate of registration of the organization, etc.), documents shall be legalized.
4. Letter of attorney on the name of the director of the representation office legalized in accordance with stated procedure.
5. Recommendation letter from the bank, which provides services for the organization.
6. Copy of the special permission issued by the state establishments of the country where the organization is located, if the law of the applicant state requires so.
7. Regulations on representation office, the organization needs to stste a purpose (purposes) for the establishment of the representation office on the territory of the Republic of Belarus, its address, organizational structure, authority of the director of the representation office, procedure of shutting down the representation office.
8. Legalized letter of attorney at name of a person entitled to conduct activities related to establishment of representation office.

The papers mentioned in paragraphs 1-6 shall be in one of state languages of the Republic of Belarus. Translation of the papers shall be certified by notary or by diplomatic or consular establishments of the Republic of Belarus abroad.
Permissions for establishment and prolonging the activities of representation offices of foreign non-commercial firms and organizations, as well as foreign firms and organizations which conduct only charitable activities on the territory of the Republic of Belarus, shall be exempt from registration fee.
Representation offices of foreign organizations shall handle a written report on their activities to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs once in half a year (by 1 to 10 of July and by 1 to 10 of January of each year).
Information in the report on activities of the representation office shall also include address of the representation office, its employees, current projects and programs, deadlines and resources for projects’ implementation, amount of grants provided by the representation office and  information about grantees, as well as other information required by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with interested state agencies.
Director of the representation office of an educational organization shall additionally report the number of agreements on education, concluded with the assistance of the representation office with individuals, the number of employees of the representation office, including part-time employees, and the list of services provided by the representation office, including paid services. This information shall be submitted to the Ministry of Education within the deadlines as stated above.