President Armen Sarkissian of Armenia on Saturday sent a message of condolences to President Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers of Cuba, in connection with the plane crash near the Havana airport, and which claimed numerous lives.

“I express deep condolences and support to you, conveying words of sympathy and consolation to the families and relatives of the dead,” the Armenian President’s message reads, in particular.