And this can without exaggeration be called one of the results of many years of effective cooperation between Belarus and the subjects of the North-Western Federal District of the Russian Federation. The regions of Karelia, Leningrad, Vologda, Murmansk, Arkhangelsk (including the Nenets Autonomous Okrug) and the Komi Republic are “assigned” to the current St. Petersburg branch of the Belarusian Embassy.The locomotives of attraction, however, are the northern capital of Russia and its surroundings. According to data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, following last year’s results, entered the top ten Russian leaders among the regions importing goods from Belarus. Peter is also in the top 10 for supplying goods to Belarus.In the first nine months of 2022, the trade turnover between the Republic of Belarus and St. Petersburg reached $1.5 billion.Last summer, the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, at a meeting with the governor of the partners of St., as they say. I think that in this year and next year we will reach the level of cooperation and development of Belarus and Russia that we should be.”
If in 2021 the trade turnover between Belarus and St. Petersburg amounted to just over 1.7 billion dollars, then it was possible to break through the 1.5 billion mark in the first nine month of 2022. Belarus managed to fulfill a large order for the supply of Passenger Transport from Minsk to the St. Automobile Plant. Following this, deliveries of tractors and special equipment “Amkodor” began to operate on the winter streets of the northern capital of the Russian Federation. With the Leningrad region, Belarus has good prospects for developing cooperation in the industrial sector, including the supply of passengers, road construction, municipal equipment, in the fields of agriculture, construction and implementation of infrastructure projects.It is impossible not to mention another important point. If an embassy is a diplomatic mission that solves the problems of the state, a consulate is an institution that represents a country in the host state in order to protect the rights and interests of the citizens of its country and its legal entities. The new status of the diplomatic mission is confirmed by the fact that many Belarusians live, do business and study in the North-Western Federal District of the Russian Federation.
