MOSCOW, 6 May (BelTA) - Moscow expects 29 foreign leaders to attend the Victory Day parade on 9 May, BelTA learned from the Kremlin press service.
“On 9 May, the leaders of foreign states will attend the military parade, which will be followed by a ceremony of laying wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden. Then there will be a reception in the Kremlin on behalf of the Russian president. The Victory Parade will be attended by 29 heads of state and government. Military contingents from 13 countries will march through Red Square,” the Kremlin press service said.
The heads of all diplomatic missions of foreign states accredited in the Russian Federation (more than 150), heads of permanent bodies and representative offices of a number of international organizations, including the CIS, the Union State, the CSTO, the Eurasian Economic Union and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and also heads of the defense ministries from 34 countries, have also been invited to the parade.
Moscow has invited veterans and public figures from a number of foreign countries to the parade. Among them are Pierre de Gaulle (grandson of Charles de Gaulle), famous French businessman Gilles Rémy, the first Czechoslovak cosmonaut Vladimir Remek.
The heads of all diplomatic missions of foreign states accredited in the Russian Federation (more than 150), heads of permanent bodies and representative offices of a number of international organizations, including the CIS, the Union State, the CSTO, the Eurasian Economic Union and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and also heads of the defense ministries from 34 countries, have also been invited to the parade.
Moscow has invited veterans and public figures from a number of foreign countries to the parade. Among them are Pierre de Gaulle (grandson of Charles de Gaulle), famous French businessman Gilles Rémy, the first Czechoslovak cosmonaut Vladimir Remek.
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