World leaders, heads of intl organizations extend condolences to Xi over strong earthquake

BEIJING -- Foreign leaders and heads of international organizations have sent condolence messages to Chinese President Xi Jinping or expressed their sincere sympathies in other ways since a strong earthquake on Tuesday struck Dingri county in the city of Xigaze, China's Xizang autonomous region.

Those foreign leaders and heads of international organizations include:

Russian President Vladimir Putin;

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee To Lam;

Vietnamese President Luong Cuong;

General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith;

First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel;

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko;

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev;

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov;

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon;

Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov;

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev;

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev;

Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan;

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari;

Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu;

Nepali President Ram Chandra Poudel;

Brunei Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah;

the Fourth King of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuck;

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud;

Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud;

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani;

Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Mishal Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah;

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian;

Omani Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said;

Chairman of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council Rashad Al Alimi;

Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno;

President of the Central African Republic Faustin-Archange Touadera;

President of Seychelles Wavel Ramkalawan;

Cape Verdean President Jose Maria Neves;

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema;

French President Emmanuel Macron;

Spanish King Felipe VI;

Finnish President Alexander Stubb;

Italian President Sergio Mattarella;

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic;

Rotating Chair of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Zeljka Cvijanovic;

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele;

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega;

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba;

South Korean Acting President Choi Sang-mok;

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif;

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres;

Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Nurlan Yermekbayev.

The foreign leaders extended condolences over the heavy casualties and property damage caused by the quake, and spoke highly of the Chinese government's swift and effective rescue operations.

They expressed their belief that under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China, the people in the disaster-hit areas will surely overcome the disaster and rebuild their homes.