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Lukashenka sends birthday greetings to Obama

Alyaksandr Lukashenka has sent a message of greetings to US President Barack Obama on his 49th birthday, BelaPAN reports.

"In the Republic of Belarus you are known as a principled, far-sighted and pragmatic politician," the Belarusian leader's press office quotes the message as saying.

"The US administration's foreign policy approaches aimed at searching for new partners and establishing mutually respectful and stereotype-free cooperation with them coincide with our understanding of the principles of the development of interstate cooperation," Mr. Lukashenka says.

The Belarusian leader has expressed certainty that he and Mr. Obama will manage to "write a qualitatively new page of Belarusian-US relations and take them to a level that meets the interests of both countries' peoples."