Ortega authorizes Laureano Ortega to sign two agreements with Belarus

The Presidency of the Republic of Nicaragua granted full powers to Laureano Facundo Ortega Murillo, Presidential Advisor for Investment, Trade, and International Cooperation, to sign two instruments with the Republic of Belarus. The decision is contained in Presidential Agreements No. 150-2026 and 151-2026, signed on November 5, 2026, at the Government House, Managua, and published in La Gaceta, Official Gazette No. 204 on Friday, November 6, 2026, on page 11190.

The issuing body is the Presidency of the Republic, headed by Co-President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Co-President Rosario Murillo Zambrana, who sign both instruments. The two agreements invoke “the powers conferred upon them by the Political Constitution” as their basis, without specifying an article, and are limited to three articles each: the granting of the power, the certification as sufficient proof of that power, and immediate entry into force with mandatory publication in the Official Gazette.

The agreements appear in the bulletin’s summary under the heading Government House, alongside the registration certificate of the Nicaraguan Table Tennis Federation (FENITEM) in the Ministry of the Interior. The copy corresponds to Year CXXX, with 76 pages and a print run of 474 copies.

Two instruments of different scope

The two agreements are not equivalent in nature or counterpart:

• Presidential Agreement No. 150-2026: authorizes the signing of the “Agreement between the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus and the Institute of Cultures of Peoples and Youth of the Republic of Nicaragua on Cooperation in the field of Culture.” This is an inter-institutional agreement between a Belarusian ministry and a Nicaraguan entity attached to cultural and youth management.
• Presidential Agreement No. 151-2026: authorizes the signing of the “Agreement between the Republic of Nicaragua and the Republic of Belarus on the mutual protection of classified information.” In this case, the counterpart is the Belarusian State as a whole, and the object consists of reciprocal obligations to safeguard classified material.

The second instrument has a broader legal scope: it commits the State regarding the handling, custody, and eventual exchange of reserved information, an area that typically requires security protocols and the designation of competent authorities.

Sufficient certification and validity from signing

In both texts, Article 2 establishes that “the certification of this Presidential Agreement is sufficient to accredit the power of Comrade Laureano Facundo Ortega Murillo to act on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Nicaragua.” The formula is repeated without variation and shifts the accreditation to the certified copy of the agreement alone, without the need for letters of credence or additional full powers.

Article 3 establishes that the agreement “takes effect as of this date” and orders its publication in La Gaceta, the Official Gazette. The effective date is, therefore, November 5, 2026, one day before its printed appearance.

The same mechanism for other foreign commitments

This resource is not an isolated case. In issue number 197 of La Gaceta, dated October 27, 2026, Presidential Agreement No. 141-2026 granted full powers to the same presidential advisor to sign the “Convention II for the Establishment of the International Alliance to Fight Telecommunications Fraud and Cyberfraud.” In issue number 180, dated October 2, 2026, this authority was extended to Brigadier General Efrén Alejandro Marín Serrano, head of the Nicaraguan Army Air Force, for an air services agreement with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The published file contains no legislative approval process, no report from the National Assembly, nor any prior consultation: the authorization is exhausted by the presidential signature and its publication. Nor are the content, deadlines, or annexes of the two instruments authorized for signature detailed, meaning the material scope of the commitments will only be known once the texts are signed and, eventually, published.

The relevance for readers lies in the cumulative effect: Nicaragua is expanding its bilateral relationship with Belarus via presidential agreements in two sensitive areas—cultural cooperation and the protection of classified information—with immediate effect and without the content of what was agreed upon having been submitted to public discussion.

Source: La Gaceta, Official Gazette No. 204, Friday, November 6, 2026, section I (Government House), p. 11190 (official reference: Presidential Agreements No. 150-2026 and 151-2026).