During the festive ceremony that was held in the State Control Committee in the framework of nationwide patriotic campaign “We are Citizens of Belarus”, 14 best 14-year-olds of Minsk and Minsk region received their first national passports. Most of them are winners of school competitions, active participants of creative contests and sports competitions. In a festive atmosphere First Deputy Chairman of the State Control Committee Ivan Romanovich presented the documents to teenagers.
This year the patriotic campaign was launched in the Museum of Modern Belarusian Statehood on 10 March. The final events will be held on 15 March, the Belarus’s Constitution Day.
The nationwide patriotic campaign “We are Citizens of Belarus” is popular project supported by the State.
Since 2004, thousands of teenagers have got their first passports from distinguished people of the country. During this time hundreds of thousands of people became participants of this project.