Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Friday sent a congratulatory message to Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov, on the occasion of Kyrgyzstan’s national holiday: Independence Day.

“I am convinced that friendly relations [between] (…) the peoples of Armenia and Kyrgyzstan will be a solid foundation—hereinafter also—for effective interstate cooperation, mutually beneficial trade and economic and cultural and humanitarian cooperation between our countries, which [the foundation] in its turn will contribute to the discovery (…) of the potential of multifaceted Armenian-Kyrgyz cooperation,” the message reads, in particular.