On the occasion of New Year and Christmas holidays, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received congratulations from His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia. The message runs as follows:
“Dear Mr. Prime Minister,

On New Year’s Eve and in anticipation of the Epiphany holiday, we welcome you and our beloved people with Christian love and patriarchal blessing from the Mother Cathedral of the Great House of Cilicia in Antelias.

We pray the Lord Almighty to safeguard our Motherland under His heavenly protection and give you more energy so that you could replenish with new achievements the new chapter of modern Armenian history that was ushered in by the Velvet Revolution.”

RF Premier Dmitry Medvedev sent a congratulatory message to his Armenian counterpart:
“Dear Nikol Vovayevich,

I am convinced that the coming year will be marked by new opportunities for the furtherance of bilateral cooperation and integration-targeted interaction within the Eurasian Economic Union.

Dear Nikol Vovayevich, I wish you good health, well-being and every success in your responsible mission, as well as happiness and prosperity to all citizens of Armenia.”

Nikol Pashinyan received felicitations from First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sooronbai Zheenbekov, Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Prime Minister of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China Li Keqiang, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland Mateusz Morawecki, Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic Kiriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea Li Nak Yong, Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Acting CSTO Secretary-General Valery Semerikov, CIS Executive Committee Chairman, CIS Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev and other foreign officials.