site.btaBulgaria Closes Its Honorary Consulate in Zaporizhzhia

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that Zhelev's consular exequatur, granted in accordance with the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, was revoked.