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MINSK, 24 August (BelTA) – Diplomats from seven countries will come to Ivanovo to take part in Belarusian Written Language Day celebrations, head of the publishing and printing department of the Information Ministry Yelena Pavlova told reporters, BelTA has learned.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed the participation of diplomats from Hungary, Latvia, Moldova, Palestine, Russia, Tajikistan, Japan and UNICEF representatives,” Yelena Pavlova said.

She believes that the tourist potential of the festival is high; however it should be given more exposure. In her view, visitors will enjoy their time in Ivanovo and the surrounding area. Tourists are recommended to visit the settlement of Yanovo that will turn 595 years in 2018, the Napoleon Orda Museum in the village of Vorotsevichi, the ancestral place of the Dostoyevsky family in the village of Dostoyevo, the agrotown of Motol where Israel’s first president was born and where the Motol Treats (Motalskiya Prysmaki) traditional festival is held every year.

The 25^th anniversary celebrations of Belarusian Written Language Day that will take place in the town of Ivanovo, Brest Oblast, will be themed around Native Land. The celebrations will kick off in the municipal park at 12:00 on 2 September.

The program of the festival will include a ceremony to celebrate winners of the National Literature Award. The contest is organized by the Information Ministry, Culture Ministry, Education Ministry and the Union of Writers of Belarus. Novelists from 13 countries are expected to attend a traditional international roundtable session. Writers from Kyrgyzstan and Ecuador will take part in the event for the first time.

The festival of books and printed press will start on 1 September. It will feature book pavilions, thematic book venues, exposition of national and regional printed press. Visitors will have an opportunity to meet with Belarusian writers, publishers, and journalists and attend presentations of books and periodicals.

The final stage of the national competition of young readers Live Classics will take place on Knowledge Day. A series of events will celebrate the 400^th anniversary of the Primer.

The sci-tech conference Ivanovo Readings will be organized by the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

The Road to Holy Places scientific and educational expedition with the Holy Light has become a traditional event of Belarusian Written Language Day.

Belarusian Written Language Day was instituted in 1994 and is marked annually on the first Sunday of September.