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site.btaBulgaria Closes Its Honorary Consulate in Zaporizhzhia
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The Bulgarian government relieved Ukrainian national Sergei Zhelev of his functions as Honorary Consul of Bulgaria in Ukraine, based in the city of Zaporizhzhia and with a consular district comprising the oblasts (provinces) of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk, the Government Information Service in Sofia reported on Wednesday.
The Honorary Consulate in Zaporizhzhia was closed.
The decision follows a notification from the Ukrainian authorities that Zhelev's consular exequatur, granted in accordance with the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, was revoked.
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