In his letter to Viktor Orban, Putin stressed that despite the “complex international situation,” he sees a positive turn in Russian-Hungarian relations. He stated that he will manage bilateral relations in the future on a constructive and practical basis, including important economic projects that serve the interests of the Russian and Hungarian peoples.
The Russian Presidential Office published a list of the names of the country's leaders who received a similar personal letter from Vladimir Putin:
- President of Abkhazia,
- President of Azerbaijan,
- President of Armenia,
- Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus,
- Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev,
- Kyrgyz President,
- Tajik President Emomali Rahmon,
- Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov and leaders of the Turkmen Parliament
- Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev,
- Alan Gagilev, President of South Ossetia,
- Luis Arce, leader of Bolivia.
- Chinese President Xi Jinping
- Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel Bermudez,
- President and Prime Minister of India,
- president of laos,
- president of nicaragua,
- Pope Francis,
- Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic,
- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa,
- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro,
- Leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party,
- Former politicians include French President Nicolas Sarkozy and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
The interesting thing about the list is that there is not a single politician from Western Europe or America among those who were welcomed, that is, this gesture was addressed primarily to “friendly” countries.
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