Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has decided to celebrate the Prophet Muhammad's birthday next year at an international level, with the heads of a number of Islamic states invited, Ziyad Sabsabi, a Russian Federation Council member representing Chechnya, told journalists.

Speaking on behalf of Kadyrov, Sabsabi also invited all the members of a delegation of Islamic countries participating in celebrations of the Prophet Muhammad's birthday to come to Chechnya next year.

The delegation members praised positive changes that have occurred in Chechnya in a brief period of time.

A plane carrying the members of the delegation of Islamic counties has left the Grozny airport for Moscow.

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