President Alexander Lukashenko sends Victory Day congratulations to CIS Heads of State, political and public figures of Russia

The President of the Republic of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has sent a message of congratulations on Victory Day to the CIS Heads of State, to political and public figures of Russia.

“There is no event more significant in the history of our countries than the Victory in the Great Patriotic War,” Alexander Lukashenko said in his message of congratulations to the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev. “In those harsh years the Belarusians and Russians set out shoulder to shoulder against the Nazis, defended for themselves and the future generations the right to live,” he said.

In his messages of congratulations addressed to the presidents of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine, Alexander Lukashenko emphasised that the grateful descendants will always remember the feat of arms of their fathers and grandfathers who were fighting shoulder to shoulder against the Nazis.

The President of Belarus has also sent a message of congratulations to Vladimir Putin, Sergei Mironov, Boris Grylov, Pavel Borodin, Boris Gromov, Yevgeny Primakov, Yuri Luzhkov, Sergei Lavrov, Patriarch Alexy II.