Astana, 25 October. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is receiving congratulations on Republic Day from foreign heads of state and leaders of international organisations, among them Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Akorda reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin highlighted Kazakhstan's economic and social achievements and wrote that relations between Russia and Kazakhstan are developing successfully in the spirit of strategic partnership and alliance. Chinese President Xi Jinping noted that Kazakhstan is consistently carrying out large-scale political reforms and said he attaches special importance to the development of Kazakh-Chinese relations.
US President Donald Trump, who sent his message before the others, wrote that he highly values the Enhanced Strategic Partnership between the two countries and looks forward to further developing the excellent relationship built between him and Tokayev during both of his presidential terms. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recalled the meeting of the High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council in Astana on 14 May 2026 and the informal summit of the Organization of Turkic States in Turkestan.
Kazakhstan was also congratulated by all its Central Asian neighbours, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Sadyr Japarov, Emomali Rahmon and Serdar Berdimuhamedov, as well as Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and French President Emmanuel Macron, who mentioned the coming 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, according to Sputnik Kazakhstan, renewed his invitation to Tokayev to visit Belarus.
What it means: The leaders of all of Kazakhstan's key partners, Russia, China, the US, Turkey and its regional neighbours, congratulated the country on its national holiday, each stressing their own side of the relationship.
Who benefits: Kazakh diplomacy gets confirmation of its multi-vector policy: warm words came from Moscow, Beijing and Washington at the same time.
Background: Republic Day is marked on 25 October to commemorate the adoption in 1990 of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Kazakh SSR.
