President congratulated CIS Secretary General Sergei Lebedev on his birthday

"For many years you have been effectively leading the largest integration association in the post-Soviet space", the President noted. - Your ability to work with full dedication, organisational talent, and focus on the final result have helped the Commonwealth of Independent States achieve its main goal — preserving the best traditions of friendship, trust and good neighbourliness between the peoples", the President said. A. Lukashenko expressed conviction that S. Lebedev's knowledge, wisdom and experience in solving responsible tasks will allow to find and successfully implement new forms of cooperation and will serve to strengthen mutually beneficial partnership within the CIS.