According to the document available on the official Russian Legal Information portal, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of that nation will establish the number of employees of the diplomatic mission and the opening of the legation will be carried out within the budgetary allocations provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Dominican Republic and the then Soviet Union (USSR) established diplomatic relations on March 8, 1945.

In March 1991, Russia, as heir to the status and international commitments of the USSR, agreed with the Dominican Republic on the assignment of ambassadors.

Until now, Moscow’s diplomatic representation in Santo Domingo was in charge of the Russian embassy in Venezuela.

In 2006, the Dominican Republic opened its diplomatic headquarters in Russia and in January 2007, the first ambassador, Jorge Pérez, a former graduate at the former USSR, presented credentials to President Vladimir Putin.

In September 2005, the Protocol on Consultations between the Foreign Affairs Ministries of the two countries was signed and a year later the Cooperation Agreement between the Diplomatic Academies of the Foreign Ministries of both nations.

According to statistics from the Dominican Central Bank, in the first half of this year, around 14,183 tourists from that territory visited the Caribbean nation.

Last year, the diplomatic mission of this country in Moscow praised the historic friendship between the two peoples “based on sincerity, solidarity and a constant willingness to understand and respect our differences,” according to a Prensa Latina report.

It also noted that in recent years there has been a notable strengthening of Dominican-Russian relations in the areas of trade, tourism, culture and academia, among others.

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