Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has received myriad birthday congratulations from foreign heads of state and government.
Mr Medvedev accepted congratulations over the phone from Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Premier of China’s State Council Li Keqiang, Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan, Belarusian Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov, Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov and Kyrgyz Prime Minister Temir Sariyev, among others.
Mr Medvedev’s telephone call with Li Keqiang focused on the preparations for the 20th regular meeting of the heads of government of Russia and China and a session of the SCO Heads of Government Council, both scheduled to be held in China in December 2015.
Mr Medvedev and his Belarusian counterpart Mr Kobyakov discussed Eurasian integration and the implementation of decisions adopted by the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council at its meeting in Grodno on 8 September.
Mr Medvedev’s telephone calls with Mr Massimov, Mr Abrahamyan and Mr Sariyev addressed pressing bilateral issues and the schedule of upcoming contacts.
Congratulatory messages arrived from Chinese President Xi Jinping, German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Uzbek President Islam Karimov, Moldovan Prime Minister Valeriu Strelet, Uzbek Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov.
In his message of greetings, Belarusian leader, President Lukashenko expressed his confidence that Mr Medvedev’s energetic activities will strengthen mutually profitable cooperation in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).
Uzbek President Karimov and Prime Minister Mirziyoyev praised Mr Medvedev’s immense contribution to developing and strengthening Uzbek-Russian relations.
German Chancellor Merkel expressed hope that Germany and Russia will manage to revive mutual trust.
Moldovan Prime Minister Strelet expressed his confidence that Mr Medvedev’s personal efforts will help achieve a new level of mutually profitable partnership in Moldova-Russia relations.
