Putin and Lukashenko congratulate Sargsyan on his 59th anniversary

Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
June 30 2013

Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko congratulate Serzh Sargsyan on
his 59th anniversary

30 June 2013 – 12:20pm

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan celebrates his 59th birthday today.
The presidents of Russia and Belarus personally congratulated the
Armenian president.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a message praised the contribution of
the Armenian president to the development of bilateral relations.
Putin said that the last meetings with Sargsyan contributed to
“further expansion of bilateral political dialogue and constructive
cooperation in trade, economic and other fields, partnership in the
international arena, particularly in the framework of the CIS
Collective Security Treaty Organization and in the interest of the
peoples of the two countries, security and stability in the South
Caucasus,” the Kremlin’s official statement reads.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko congratulated Sargsyan and
said that he warmly recalls a recent meeting with the president in
Yerevan.

Serzh Sargsyan was born on June 30, 1954 in Stepanakert,
Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region of the Azerbaijani SSR.