ArmInfo. On May 17, the Consul General of the Republic of Armenia in Odessa Gevorg Petrosyan received a special government permission from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to implement consular actions in Odessa, Kherson, Nikolaev and Kirovograd regions - an exequatur.
An official document in the presence of the Director General of the Second European Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Volodymyr Shkurov and the Ambassador of Armenia Tigran Seyranian presented the Deputy General Director of the General Directorate of the Consular Service Valery Lobach to the Consul General.
At the ceremony, Gevorg Petrosyan made a thank-you speech. The Armenian diplomat assured those present that in the consular region under his jurisdiction, he would carry out the functions stipulated by the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963, in defense of the interests of the citizens of the Republic of Armenia living in these areas, as well as taking measures to expand ties and cooperation between Armenia and the region.