The honorary consul

My name is Randrianasolo Lalarison Richard, malagasy citizen. I live with my family in Hungary since 1980. My wife is hungarian, we have two daughters - one of them who is the eldest is married, the younger is civil engineer - and also we have a beautiful grand-daughter.

By the middle of 1974 year I came to Europe to follow up my university studies, first at all at the former Soviet Union, where I spent six years at the University of Moscow to become oil engineer. After that when arriving in Budapest, I obtained firstly the diplome of programmer-mathematician from the Budapest ELT University, and then the diplome of "digital control" engineer from the Budapest Kandó Kálmán Technical College. In 1991, I was awarded a diploma in Economics from the Business School of Rouen, France, and went further to pursue an EMBA (Executive Master of Business Administration) study at Purdue University, Indiana-USA.
As engineer I started to apply working in Budapest, later as economist, financial analyst and management controller.

During my long stay in Hungary, a feeling of estrangement from my country, Madagascar became more and more tangible. I also wished to broaden the Hungarians’ knowledge about my country so as they would know more than just the name of Móric Benyovszky.

Therefore, I though that a closer official relation between the two countries would be useful.

My friends supported my idea to file a petition to the Foreign Office of Madagascar asking that the Republic of Madagascar initiate direct official contact with the Republic of Hungary.

My petition was approved and in May 2005, the President of the Republic of Madagascar affirmed my position as Honorary Consul of Madagascar in Hungary..

In December 2005 the President of the Republic of Hungary assented to the opening of the Consulate of the Republic of Madagascar in Hungary.

  The task and role of the Honorary Consul
  • What does it take to be a honorary consul?

    - The activity, task and role of the honorary consul is ascertained in the Agreement signed on 24 April, 1963 in Vienna.
    The tasks of the honorary consul are specified by regulations. They can be carried out by co-operating closely with the consulates and the diplomatic representatives.


  • Where does the Honorary Consul stand in the diplomatic hierarchy?

    - The honorary consul belongs to the Consulate. In the diplomatic hierarchy the Consulate follows Embassy and the Consulate General of the given country representing the country abroad.


  • Who can be a Honorary Consul?

    - Such person or citizen of the host country can be nominated and named to be honorary consul who has high public esteem, and who is suitable for filling such a position due to his social status, financial situation, clean legal record and education.



  • What is your task?

    - The primary task of the newly founded Consulate, and thus mine as well, is to develop commercial, economic, cultural, scientific and tourist relations between Madagascar and Hungary and to represent the interests and to act as a counsel for citizens of Madagascar, for any legal person or organisation without legal personality.


  • What do you consider to be your most important task?

    - The tasks of the honorary consul are wide-ranging and every task is equally important: developing relations, giving information, as well as representing interests. Naturally it is important to take part in every action that can add to the reputation and prestige of Madagascar in Hungary.



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