Bishkek, Dec. 22, 2025. /Kabar/. On December 21, President Sadyr Zhaparov was awarded the Leo Tolstoy International Peace Prize.
The awards ceremony took place at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory in the presence of the heads of state of the EAEU member states and observer countries.
The awards were presented to the Presidents of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Zhaparov, Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, and Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev by Valery Gergiev, Artistic Director and Director of the State Academic Mariinsky Theater and General Director of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of Russia.
The leaders of the three countries were awarded the International Prize for their significant personal contribution to strengthening peace and security in Central Asian region. On March 31, 2025, the heads of state signed the Treaty on the Junction Point of the Three Countries and the Khujand Declaration of Eternal Friendship.
The joint efforts of Sadyr Zhaparov, Emomali Rahmon, and Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who became award laureates, are aimed at ensuring stability and sustainable development and enhancing the international prestige of the entire region.
In his speech, President Sadyr Zhaparov noted that this award is recognition of their joint contribution to strengthening peace, stability, and ensuring security in Central Asia.
Sadyr Zhaparov emphasized that today the region is becoming a space of trust, good-neighborliness, mutually beneficial cooperation, and sustainable development.
"It is clear that the final resolution of border issues in the region is of great importance for Eurasian security and geopolitical stability as a whole, and also strengthens the status of the integration associations and regional formats of which we are a part."
"The agreements reached have become a clear expression of our peoples' sincere desire for peace, harmony, and good-neighborliness," the head of state said, emphasizing that this desire was particularly evident among residents of the border regions, where citizens of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan have lived side by side for many years.
Concluding his speech, President Sadyr Zhaparov quoted the great Kyrgyz writer Chyngyz Aitmatov: "The future of humanity is possible only through dialogue between cultures and peoples."