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

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.