A solemn ceremony of unveiling the memorial plate dedicated to the national hero of Venezuela Simon Bolivar will be held in the park named after him in Minsk on July 7, BelTA learnt from Head of the Venezuelan diplomatic mission to Belarus Americo Diaz Nunez.

“The Minsk City Council complied with our request to name the park after Simon Bolivar, the hero –liberator of the six countries of South America,” the diplomat said.

He gave a positive estimate of the cultural cooperation between Belarus and Venezuela which pertains to the establishment of the friendship society that functions within the framework of the Belarusian society of friendship and cultural links with foreign countries. In June 2008, the society participated in the Days of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Belarus.

In 2008, the representatives of the Venezuelan culture visited Belarus three times, among them conductor of the Venezuelan orchestra Angelo Pogliuca who conducted the symphonic orchestra of the Belarusian television and radio company. A folk band from Venezuela “'Golperos de Don Pio' successfully performed in the Belarusian capital.