Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Sergey Aleinik meets with President of Sardinia (Italy) Ugo Cappellacci

29 March 2012

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Aleinik met with President of Sardinia Ugo Cappellacci in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus on March 29, 2012. President of Sardinia visits Belarus at the invitation of the Minsk Oblast Executive Committee.

During the visit Ugo Cappellacci is scheduled to meet with Chairman of the Minsk Oblast Executive Committee Boris Batura and to sign the Agreement on Cooperation between the Minsk Oblast and the autonomous region of Sardinia.

Sardinian delegation is expected to visit the High-Tech Park, the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, construction cites in the Myadel District and a number of Belarusian enterprises. The delegation will also meet with Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk Filaret as well as representatives of the Ministry of Education of Belarus.

Note: The visit of Ugo Cappellacchi to Belarus is the first one in the 20-year history of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The autonomous region of Sardinia is one of the most active regions of Italy to cooperate with Belarus. The Honourable Consulate of the Republic of Belarus in Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia, was opened in 2007.

The Belarusian-Sardinian contacts develop intensively in cultural, educational and humanitarian fields.

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