The office of the Embassy of Denmark in Mykolaiv will open in a few weeks — the head has already been appointed

The office of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Denmark in Mykolaiv will start working within a few weeks. Currently, its head is already appointed — a Danish diplomat.

The Ambassador of Denmark to Ukraine, Ole Egberg Mikkelsen, told about this during a conversation with the «NikVesti» correspondent.

The need to open the embassy is due to the fruitful cooperation between Copenhagen and Mykolaiv. At the official opening, the ambassador announced the arrival of a distinguished Danish official to the city.

— We are working on it, we need to have a local representative office, because it is a long road from Kyiv to Mykolaiv. The already appointed head of our new Embassy Office is a young Danish diplomat. And there will also be a visit by a dignitary from Denmark to cut the ribbon. We hope that there will be an appropriate representative from the Ukrainian side as well. For security reasons, we cannot give a date, it will definitely be within a few weeks. This will be a real embassy office, the city will have its first embassy, — Ole Egberg Mikkelsen said.

The representative office will function in the city during the post-war reconstruction of Mykolaiv.

— I think that the Embassy Office will be here as long as it will be necessary for the development of the city of Mykolaiv. And after the victory, as I said, Mykolaiv and I will be together for a long time, I think that this is a long-term cooperation, — he added.

The beginning of Denmark's cooperation with Mykolaiv

In March 2022, the president of Ukraine, speaking in front of the Danish parliament, called on the country to take «leadership» over Mykolaiv after the end of the full-scale war unleashed by Russia.

At the end of August last year, the mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sienkevych, and the Minister of International Development of Denmark, Flemming Moller Mortensen, signed a memorandum of cooperation. The memorandum envisages joint work on the formation of reconstruction projects and the involvement of investors from various countries in the restoration of Mykolaiv.