Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sent a message to his Armenian
counterpart Serzh Sargsyan on his 56th birthday, News Armenia reports.
Medvedev expressed confidence that various facets of Russian-Armenian
cooperation will develop for the benefit of both peoples and in the
interest of developing the integrational processes of the Commonwealth
of Independent States and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Belarus Alexander
Lukashenko,Patriarch of Moscow and All-Russia Kirill, chairman of the
executive committee of the CIS Sergey Lebedev and the President of
FIDE Kirsan Iliumjinov also sent their congratulations to the Armenian
leader.