for the position of deputy director of the department of humanitarian cooperation, general political tion, the second one has already worked for two terms, that is. 6 years, after which in february of the twenty -first year he returned to yerevan, in september of the same twenty-first year he was appointed worm plenipotentiary ambassador and, as it were, came to belarus already in my third hypostasis for the post of ambassador. in 2000, i was to be appointed to the embassy of the republic of armenia in moscow. something went wrong and they offered me. work with the embassy of the republic of armenia in belarus. i knew about belarus then, it’s not enough to say, given what i already know now, it’s probably not enough to say anything, i was convinced for myself that this is a wonderful country where wonderful people live, kind, sympathetic, tolerant, with a regional sense of justice, european beautiful people. i came with my family, my son then went to study in two gyms, a swimming pool, everything it was great for learning to the fullest, my daughter then went to kindergarten, at first

humanitarian or other types of practical cooperation, cross-border, human contacts, but we will continue to respond asymmetrically to all illegal measures of pressure. through the foreign policy departmentsbly find understanding and support in expanding and raising the level of our mutual diplomatic presence. in this regard , special thanks to the russian side for prompt review. questions regarding the transfer of branches of the belarusian embassies to the status of consulates general, this has already been done in st. petersburg and yekaterinburg, we are preparing to open kaliningrad, nizhny novgorod and vladivostok in rostov-on-don. the results in mutual trade are our common cause for pride. against the backdrop of record figures in 2020, we made significant gains last year. we were able to update the historical maximum of mutual trade. and this maximum today exceeded 54 billion us dollars in goods and services, in just over the past 5 summers, mutual trade has increased by $18 billion. it is also very encouraging that the positive dynamics of trade turnover between our countries is recorded based on the results of 4 months of this year. we have been together purposefully for the last