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MOSCOW, December 30 (Itar-Tass) – President Medvedev wished Happy new Year to world leaders, the Kremlin press service said Wednesday.
In a message addressed to Indian President Pratibha Patil Medvedev highly appreciated the development of bilateral relations in 2009, in particular, cooperation in the field of economy, culture and in humanitarian fields.
In a message addressed to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Medvedev praised a unique and multifarious character of the festival of the Year of Russia in India and the Year of India in Russia. The Russian president believes in new opportunities offered in the new Year for the advance of mutually advantageous projects for the benefit of the two countries and in the interests of ensuring global and regional security and stability, he said in the message.
Addressing Chinese Chairman Hu Jintao Medvedev praised joint efforts made in the outgoing year to strengthen the relations of confidential partnership and strategic cooperation between Russia and China. Medvedev praised the accomplishments made by two countries by a historic date – the 60th anniversary since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
In a new Year message addressed to leaders of the CIS President Medvedev underlined steadfast and constructive development of multifarious relations between Russia and Azerbaijan. Medvedev firmly believes in realisation of new perspective projects in different fields of mutually advantageous cooperation, the Russian president said in a message to President of Azerbaijan Ilkham Aliyev.
Medvedev expressed confidence in positive dynamics of cooperation between Russia and Armenia in the interests of strengthening age-old traditions of friendship between the two countries in a new Year message to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
In a massage addressed to Kazakh leader Nursultan Nazarbayev the Russian president said Russia was pinning particular hopes on joint work in the framework of the Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. we are prepared to coordinate joint efforts in the international arena in future, taking into account Kazakhstan’s forthcoming chairmanship of OSCE, Medvedev said in a message to the Kazakh president.
In the outgoing year important agreements were reached with Kyrgyzstan, which paved the way for the advance of the Russo- Kyrgyz relations to a qualitatively new level, Medvedev said in a message to Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Medvedev believes in joint efforts to develop the relations between Russia and Kyrgyzstan as two allies and strengthen strategic partnership between them, he said.
In a new Year message to Acting President of Moldova Mihai Ghimpu Medvedev expressed hope for positive dynamics in the development of bilateral relations on the basis of equal and mutually advantageous cooperation and in the interests of peace and security.
President Medvedev highly appreciated Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon’s state visit to Russia, which enabled to reach important decisions in the framework of the bilateral agenda, Medvedev said in a new Year message to the Tajik president. Medvedev expressed hope for the realisation of the reached agreements in the interests of constructive development of Russo-Tajik relations in future.
Medvedev wished Happy new Year to Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov. The Russian president expressed profound belief in long standing traditions of mutual friendship and respect. Joint steps taken in the outgoing year to broaden mutually advantageous cooperation are a vivid example of a tremendous potential for partnership, Medvedev stressed.
Medvedev wished Happy new Year to Uzbek President Islam Karimov and expressed his belief in steadfast development of constructive, mutually advantageous cooperation in the entire range of traditionally friendly Russo- Uzbek relations.
In a new Year message to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko Medvedev emphasized the importance of constructive, mutually advantageous cooperation in the spirit of age-long traditions of friendship, which meets long-term interests of Russia and Ukraine.
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