The Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Nicaragua is to be opened in Yekaterinburg on January 27, 2012. According to the press service of Sverdlovsk Region Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs, the opening ceremony will be attended by Chairman of the Nicaraguan department of Russian-Nicaraguan Trade, Economic, Scientific & Technical Cooperation Committee and Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister of the Republic of Nicaragua Manuel Coronel.

The agenda of the event covers a business forum and meetings with representatives of the Urals’ business community. The companies arriving in the region as part of Nicaraguan business mission will probably be the ones dealing in meat processing, tobacco and strong drinks production, mining metallurgy, manufacturing, and tourism.