B. M. Bruk
The Chairman of the Board of Brisk
The Brest City Jewish Community Organization

Concerning a memorial plaque

Dear Boris Mendelevich,

Your appeal regarding establishing a memorial board in honor of M. Begin at the Brest City Executive Committee has been examined.

We find it advisable to establish in the city of Brest a memorial plaque in honor of Nobel Laureate and Prime Minister of Israel M. Begin, a native of Brest with the text agreed earlier:

MENACHEM BEGIN
1913-1992
NATIVE OF THE CITY OF BREST
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATE 1978
PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL 1977-1983

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE OBLAST EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
[signature] L. A. TSUPRIK

Brest City Executive Committee [City Council]
DECISION No 975 of 21 July 2005
Brest City

Concerning the Placement of a Memorial Plaque to M. Begin


In order to perpetuate the memory of Brest native, Nobel Prize laureate, and Prime Minister of Israel M. Begin, and guided by the Belarussian Council of Ministers Decree No 1393 of 6 September 2000, Approval of the Statute about the Procedure for Planning, Creating, Renovation, and Inspection of Works of Monumental and Monumental Decorative Art on Belarussian Territory, the Brest City Executive Committee has DECIDED:

1. To request the Brest Oblast Executive Committee consider the question of permitting the placement of a memorial plaque to M. Begin at a meeting of the Oblast Executive Committee.

2. To approve the following text of the memorial plaque in two languages (Hebrew and Russian):

MENACHEM BEGIN 1913-1992
NATIVE OF BREST
NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATE, 1978
PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL 1977-1983 [corrected from head of state]
3. To bear in mind that according to previous agreements the manufacture and placement of the memorial plaque and the decoration at 49 Kuybyshev Street are to be made at the expense of Brisk, the Brest City Jewish Social Organization.

4. The Brest City Jewish Social Organization Brisk is to coordinate a sketch and site of the memorial plaque at the building with the Directorate of Architecture, City Design, and Construction of the City Executive Committee.

5. The KUP [Unitary Municipal Enterprise] ZhREhU [Housing Repair and Operations Directorate ] (P. P. Zagray) of the city of Brest is to include repair of the facade of the building at 49 Kuybyshev Street in the facade repair program for 2006.

6. By 22 September 2005 the KUP Brest Specialized Enterprise (Ye. M. Maksimuk) is to manufacture, place, and budget for the memorial plaque.

7. Oversight of the execution of this decision is entrusted to V. T. Khafizov, Deputy Chairman of the Brest City Executive Committee.

A. S. Palyshenkov Chairman of the Executive Committee V. V. Chernov Chief of Administration of the Executive Committee

[seal of the Records Sector of the City Executive Committee]