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Office of the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Belarus opens in Hokkaido Prefecture

08.11.2021

On November 8, 2021, the official opening ceremony of the office of the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Belarus took place in the city of Hakodate, Hokkaido Prefecture.

The ceremony was attended by members of the Japanese Parliament and the representatives of the Belarusian Embassy in Japan, the branch of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Hakodate, the Hokkaido Prefecture Administration, Hakodate City Hall, as well as regional public organizations and business associations, clergy.

The decision to appoint honorary consul was made in June 2021. The development of bilateral economic, cultural, sports and interregional ties will become the priority goals in the work of the honorary consul.

It is symbolic that the office of the Honorary Consul is located in the city of Hakodate, where famous Belarusians Iosif and Elizabeth Goshkevich lived and worked for a long time.

Participants of the event laid flowers at the bust of Iosif Goshkevich and on the grave of his wife Elizabeth.

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