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Unlike Belarus, Italy has ratified agreement on Belarusian children’s recuperative holidays, embassy says

Unlike Belarus, Italy has already ratified the Belarusian-Italian interstate agreement on Belarusian children’s recuperative holidays in Italy, the Italian embassy said in its November 29 press release.

Belarusian children’s recuperative holidays in Italy will become possible only after that country ratifies an agreement on this matter, Alyaksandr Zhuk, first deputy minister of education, told the Belarusian National Assembly on Wednesday.

He stressed that permits for Belarusian children’s trips to Italy would be issued only if there were guarantees of their return to their homeland.

“As far back as November 15, 2007, the ambassador of Italy officially notified Belarusian Education Minister Alyaksandr Radzkow in a letter hat all the internal procedures for ratifying the interstate agreement on the recuperative holidays of Belarusian legal minors in Italy had been completed,” the press release said. “Belarus has not yet completed the ratification procedure.”

The House of Representatives of the Belarusian National Assembly passed the ratification bill for the interstate agreement on November 22. It is yet to be passed by the Council of the Republic and signed by Alyaksandr Lukashenka. //BelaPAN