On April 12, 2023 the Ambassador of Belarus Valery Kolesnik laid flowers to the monument to the world’s first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin

On April 12, 2023, on the occasion of the International Day of Human Space Flight, the Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Indonesia Valery Kolesnik and staff of the Embassy together with the diplomatic missions of the Russian Federation and Armenia laid flowers to the monument to the world’s first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The monument was unveiled in Jakarta on March 10, 2021.

Information: April 12 or Cosmonautics Day, the date set to commemorate the first manned space flight, which was celebrated first in the USSR and later in the post-Soviet space.

On April 7, 2011, a special plenary session of the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution that officially declared April 12 as International Human Space Day. Co-authors of the resolution were more than 60 states.

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