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Lukashenko sends New Year greetings to foreign leaders

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MINSK, 31 December (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has congratulated foreign leaders on New Year festivities. The Belarusian leader wished everyone good health, happiness, and new successes in their responsible activities, a bright and eventful year, and new perspectives for mutually beneficial and fruitful cooperation, the press service of the Belarus president 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 figures, political figures, public figures, artists, 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, Georgian President Mikheil Kavelashvili, 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 President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping, President of the United States of America Donald Trump, Serbia President Aleksandar Vučić, Hungary President Tamas Sulyok and Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Slovakia President Robert Fico, Türkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prince Albert II of Monaco, 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, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council Khalid bin Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, India President Droupadi Murmu and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, Cuba President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, President of Eritrea Isaias Afwerki, President of Cameroon Paul Biya, Iraq President Abdul Latif Rashid, President of Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso, Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vietnam President Luong Cuong and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam To Lam, Chairman of the State Administration Council, Prime Minister of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, President of Côte d'Ivoire Alassane Dramane Ouattara, Indonesia President Prabowo Subianto, President of Niger Abdourahamane Tchiani, South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa, Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas, Mongolia President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, President of Panama José Raúl Mulino, President of El Salvador Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez, Prime Minister of Mauritius Navinchandra Ramgoolam, President of Mauritania Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, President of Malawi Peter Mutharika, President of Tanzania Samia Suluhu, President of Ethiopia Taye Atske Selassie, President of Lebanon Joseph Aoun, President of Nepal Ram Chandra Paudel.

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 and Crown Prince of Kuwait Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq and Crown Prince, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Sultanate of Oman Sayyid Theyazin bin Haitham Al Said, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince, Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King Ibrahim of Malaysia, Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin, King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia, King of Eswatini Mswati III, President of Zambia Hakainde Hichilema, 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 Daniel Francisco Chapu, Namibia President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Nigeria President Bola Tinubu, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, Co-Presidents of Nicaragua José Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Rosario Murillo, Interim President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Mali Assimi Goïta, President of Chad Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, President of the Dominican Republic Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona, President of Colombia Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego, President of Bolivia Rodrigo Paz Pereira, President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa, President of the Union of the Comoros Azali Assoumani, President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith, President of the Republic of Singapore Tharman Shanmugaratnam, President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr., President of Ghana John Dramani Mahama, President of Burkina Faso Ibrahim Traoré, representatives of the Libyan leadership, including Supreme Commander of the Libyan National Army Khalifa Belqasim Haftar, Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council of Sudan Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdel Rahman al-Burhan.

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 Leo XIV, 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.

Apart from that, 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.

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