President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev sent a congratulatory message to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the occasion of Ukraine’s Independence Day. In response, Zelenskyy expressed gratitude for Uzbekistan’s position regarding the territorial integrity of Ukraine and for organizing recreation for Ukrainian children.
On the website of the Uzbek president and in his Telegram channel, the congratulatory message to Zelenskyy had not been published at the time of the article’s release. The congratulation and Zelenskyy’s response to it appeared in Zelenskyy’s Telegram channel. Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s congratulation was written in the Cyrillic version of the Uzbek language. Zelenskyy’s response was in Ukrainian and English.
Some users, as well as myself, were puzzled by the state emblem in Mirziyoyev’s message — it turned out to be too vertically stretched, possibly due to improper handling of the image format. In the message, Mirziyoyev addresses Zelenskyy by the Russian version of his name: Vladimir Alexandrovich.
Here is the exact translation of Mirziyoyev’s congratulatory message from Uzbek:
President of Ukraine
Vladimir Zelenskiy
Your Excellency,
Honourable Vladimir Alexandrovich,I sincerely congratulate you and the entire people of Ukraine on your national holiday – Independence Day.
I am confident that the relations between our states, based on traditional friendship and the principles of long-term cooperation, will continue to develop in the future in the interests of our peoples.
Taking this opportunity, I wish you strong health, family happiness, and success in your responsible activities, and I wish the people of Ukraine peace, tranquility, and prosperity.
Respectfully,
Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Here is Zelenskyy’s response in English:
Sincerely grateful, President Mirziyoyev @president_uz, for your warm greetings on the Independence Day of Ukraine. I am confident that our states will continue to develop fruitful cooperation and strengthen bilateral relations for the benefit of the friendly peoples of Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
I appreciate your position on the territorial integrity of Ukraine and humanitarian initiatives for the recreation of Ukrainian children in Uzbekistan.
The fact that Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s congratulation was published not in Uzbek official resources, but through the channel of the President of Ukraine, gives it a special symbolic weight: it was Kyiv that made the message public, emphasizing the importance of Uzbekistan’s position in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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