President Armen Sarkissian of Armenia continues to receive congratulatory messages from the heads of various countries and international organizations on the occasion of the New Year and Christmas holidays.

Governor General of Canada Mary Simon, President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili, Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, President of Slovenia Borut Pahor, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko, First President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, King Harald V of Norway, King Abdullah II of Jordan, President of Poland Andrzej Duda, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Chairman and Executive Secretary of the CIS Executive Committee Sergey Lebedev, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Rik Daems, and several others have sent their respective congratulations and best wishes to President Sarkissian and the Armenian people.