Lukashenko sends New Year greetings to foreign leaders

MINSK, 31 December (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has congratulated foreign leaders on New Year festivities, the press service of the Belarusian leader told BelTA.

Greetings on behalf of the Belarusian head of state have been sent to the leadership of the Russian Federation, leaders of countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, state, political, public, artistic, and religious figures, representatives of the private sector of the CIS states, heads of other countries in various parts of the globe, and heads of international and regional organizations.

In particular, Aleksandr Lukashenko has sent New Year greetings to Russia President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, Armenia President Vahagn Khachaturyan, Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and Kazakhstan’s first president Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov, Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon, Turkmenistan President Serdar Berdimuhamedow, the National Leader of the Turkmen People, Chairman of the People’s Council of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, and Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

The world leaders, to whom congratulatory messages have been sent, include China President Xi Jinping, Türkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister, Ruler of Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, India President Droupadi Murmu and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, Serbia President Aleksandar Vučić, Hungary President Tamas Sulyok and Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Slovakia President Peter Pellegrini and Prime Minister Robert Fico, Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, Cuba President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, Iraq President Abdul Latif Rashid, Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vietnam President Luong Cuong, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Indonesia President Prabowo Subianto, South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa, Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas, and Mongolia President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh.

Greetings on behalf of the Belarusian head of state have also been extended to King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain and Crown Prince, Prime Minister and Deputy Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Forces of the Kingdom of Bahrain Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Emir of the State of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and his deputy Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Thani, Emir of the State of Kuwait Mishaal Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince, Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin, King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia, Prince Albert II of Monaco, President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik, Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta John Dunlap, King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand, Sri Lanka President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, King Abdullah II of Jordan, King Mohammed VI of Morocco, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Kim Jong Un, Israel President Isaac Herzog, Algeria President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Angola President João Lourenço, Kenya President William Ruto, Mozambique President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi and President-elect Daniel Francisco Chapu, Namibia President Nangolo Mbumba, Nigeria President Bola Tinubu, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, Nicaragua President José Daniel Ortega, President of the Dominican Republic Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona, Colombia President Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego, Bolivia President Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, Ecuador President Daniel Noboa, President of the Union of the Comoros Azali Assoumani, Laos President Thongloun Sisoulith, President of the Republic of Singapore Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Chairman of the State Administration Council, Prime Minister of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing, President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

Messages on behalf of the Belarus president have also been sent to prominent religious and public figures. Among them are Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Pope Francis, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch Porfirije (Peric), Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, Metropolitan of Pitsunda, Sukhumi and Abkhazia Ilia II.

In addition, Aleksandr Lukashenko has sent holiday greetings to the heads of international and regional organizations, including the United Nations Organization, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Eurasian Economic Commission, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Numerous New Year’s greetings addressed to the Belarus president keep coming from foreign leaders, heads of international organizations and well-known individuals. Greeting have already been received from the leaders of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Vietnam, Mongolia, Oman, Jordan as well as from high-ranking officials of various international organizations, including the CSTO, the CIS, and the SCO.