World leaders have sent letters of congratulation to Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev on the occasion of his birthday, AzVision.az reports citing the Presidential press service. 

His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Excellency,

I cordially congratulate you on the occasion of your birthday and wish you robust health, welfare and success in your high state activities.

It is with immense pleasure that I want to stress the strategic partnership between Georgia and Azerbaijan based on firm historical and common interests.

I am confident that the friendly relations between our countries will strengthen in all the areas of cooperation. This will contribute to the establishment of peace, the strengthening of stability in the region, and the welfare of our nations.

I would like to reaffirm the Georgian government`s readiness and my personal wish to promote the future cooperation between our countries and elevate them to a higher level.

Mr. President, I avail myself of this opportunity to express my deepest respect to you and extend my best wishes on the occasion of your birthday.

Sincerely,

 

Giorgi Gakharia

Prime Minister of Georgia

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear Ilham Heydar oglu,

I sincerely congratulate you on the occasion of your birthday.

The achievements of modern Azerbaijan in ensuring sustainable development and prosperity are the product of your constructive and far-sighted policy as a head of state. Thanks to your high professionalism and rich life experience you are making a huge contribution to the strengthening of sovereignty and security of the friendly Azerbaijan, ensuring the comprehensive enhancement of your people’s welfare and the country's prestige on the international arena.

We highly appreciate your significant efforts aimed at promoting multifaceted Tajik-Azerbaijani cooperation based on the historical traditions of friendship, mutual understanding and mutual support that bind the peoples of our two countries.

Holding regular high-level policy dialogues is an important factor in strengthening relations of intergovernmental cooperation between the two countries. I am convinced that together we will continue to deepen these relations in the interest of the welfare of our peoples.

Dear Ilham Heydar oglu, availing myself of this pleasant opportunity, I wish you the best of health, happiness and new accomplishments in your high state activities, and the brotherly people of Azerbaijan peace, prosperity and progress.

Sincerely,

Emomali Rahmon

President of the Republic of Tajikistan

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Your Excellency,

I extend my congratulations to you on the occasion of your birthday coupled with my best wishes for good health and success in your activities aimed at ensuring further development of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

It is with great pleasure that I recall our previous meetings, which I describe as an opportunity for an open exchange of views and ideas on various issues. I am confident that in the coming years we will continue to make efforts to develop important relations between our two countries.

I highly appreciate your contribution to the development of Serbian-Azerbaijani relations in a spirit of mutual respect and confidence, and express my special gratitude to you for Azerbaijan’s principled position on the issue of Kosovo and Metohija, as well as for your country’s support to Serbia within international organizations. I also avail myself of this opportunity to emphasize Serbia’s principled commitment to respect sovereignty and territorial integrity of all the UN member states.

May you always be surrounded by sincere friends, may the results of your dedicated efforts earn the special gratitude of future generations. Once again, please accept the assurance of my highest consideration.

Sincerely,

Aleksandar Vucic

President of the Republic of Serbia

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear Mr. President,

On the occasion of your 59th birthday, please accept my most cordial congratulations and best wishes for good health, personal and family happiness, and professional successes.

Even in these difficult times of the pandemic, our countries continue to show solidarity in action, thus contributing to the continuous strengthening of cooperation and close ties between Montenegro and Azerbaijan.

I look forward to our future meetings and further progress of friendly Azerbaijan.

Please accept the assurances of my highest consideration and warm regards.

Milo Đukanović

President of Montenegro

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Your Excellency,

On the eve of the civil New Year 2021, I have the honor to extend to you my heartfelt wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year. I would like to seize this opportunity to also wish you, on a more personal note, a very happy birthday!

The passing year has been one of many unexpected challenges and unpredictable difficulties for Israel, Azerbaijan and for most countries around the world.

I was looking forward to meeting you in Baku, but the pandemic we have all had to cope with this year has imposed a postponement on our meeting.

I hope that the coming year will provide us an opportunity to meet, as I would truly like to exchange with you in person and praise the historically warm relationship between the Jewish and the Azerbaijani peoples.

May the New Year bring peace, prosperity and good health to your nation, and may the cordial and close ties between our peoples continue to thrive! I hope that the strategic cooperation between Israel and Azerbaijan will continue to develop and grow.

Please accept, Mr. President, the expression of my most distinguished feelings.

Sincerely,

Isaac Herzog

Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Mr. President Aliyev my warmest and heartfelt wishes on your birthday.

My prayers for your continued health and extraordinary leadership.

Rabbi Marc Schneier

President of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding

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To His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear Mr. President, dear brother,

Please, permit me to extend my heartfelt congratulations to you on your birthday. In your person, this is also an occasion for a proud celebration for the brotherly people Azerbaijan because under your wise and determined leadership, Azerbaijan has made history by defeating Armenia and regaining your occupied lands.

Your country’s progress at home and the ever-growing respect at the international level for the achievements of Azerbaijan have been made possible by diligent efforts and work under your guidance.

With you at the helm, Mr. President, there is every reason to look into the future with confidence for the prosperity and security of our brothers and sisters in Azerbaijan.

May you be in good health in the years to come and may your leadership and your successes continue to guide Azerbaijan to greater heights.

With utmost respect,

Hikmet Çetin

Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey 1997-1999

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey 1991-1994

Member of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center

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To His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Your Excellency,

On the special day of your birthday we wholeheartedly address to you our most heartfelt wishes for good health, strength, happiness, prosperity and all the best that life can offer to come your way.

With our deepest feelings of esteem,

Vardis Vardinoyannis

Chairman of Motor Oil Hellas and Vegas Oil and Gas companies, and his wife Marianna Vardinoyannis

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To His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear President Aliyev,

It is my pleasure to congratulate you on your birthday.

I remember with pleasure our previous meetings and I hope that you will continue to lead your country and people of Azerbaijan in a positive direction like you did in the past.

Mr. President, allow me also to thank you for our common family Nizami Ganjavi International Center, where we follow your vision and guidance.

Best wishes,

Mladen lvanic

Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2014-2018

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2002-2007

Member of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center

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To His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Your Excellency,

On behalf of the GUAM Secretariat and me personally, allow me to extend to you our most sincere congratulations on the occasion of your birthday.

Your anniversary is celebrated against the backdrop of a glorious victory of the armed forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Patriotic War, which ended with the liberation of the occupied territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the restoration of its territorial integrity.

It is widely acknowledged that at the foundation of this historic achievement stood your strong leadership, unbending political will, strategic vision, and political wisdom, coupled with your dedication and many years of laborious efforts in national and statehood building. The ability as Commander-in-Chief to unite, mobilize, and to lead the nation at the most critical and decisive moment in its modern history was the quintessential manifestation of your leadership.

Contemporary and independent Azerbaijan with a dynamic economy, active, peaceful, and constructive foreign policy, strong and modern army is the result of the realization of the vision and the strategy, laid down by national leader Heydar Aliyev, which is continued by your selfless service to your motherland.

Today Azerbaijan is a recognized and respected member of the international community, an active and influential actor in the international arena, champion of peace, dialogue, and mutual understanding based on universal values, norms, and principles of peaceful coexistence.

Important international projects in energy, transportation, and communication, pioneered by and implemented with the active participation of Azerbaijan, profoundly altered the geopolitical landscape of the wider Caspian Sea and the Black Sea region, ensuring its integration into the global economy, strengthening cooperation among neighboring countries, thus enhancing the strategic significance of this vast and rich geographic area.

A new situation emerged in the region, as a consequence of the victory of Azerbaijan, opens up promising opportunities for rehabilitation and development in the region. We highly appreciate your messages of goodwill, appealing to wisdom and common sense, inviting all to dialogue and cooperation. We strongly believe that this historic chance and unique opportunity in the region should be seized in the interests and for the benefits of all the nations living in the region. And we in GUAM as a regional organization, uniting four friendly nations and strategic partners, are ready to support all the ideas and initiatives to that end.

Dear Mr. President,

Availing of this special occasion, allow me once again to congratulate you on your birthday and on the great achievements in the development of your country. We wish you good health, inexhaustible energy, and new great victories in the implementation of your ideas and plans for the sake of the progress and prosperity of your beautiful country.

Please accept the assurances of my highest consideration.

Altai Efendiev

GUAM Secretary General

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Your Excellency,

Dear Mr. President,

Dear Friend,

Our family wishes you a splendid birthday! May this new year in your life bring you health, happiness for you and your beautiful family, and prosperity for Azerbaijan. You have achieved astounding success in your country and we know this is only the beginning.

Mr. President thank you for your continued support to the Nizami Ganjavi International Center.

We look forward to working with you further on the development of relations between Azerbaijan and Ukraine.

With warmest wishes,

Viktor Yushchenko
President of Ukraine 2005-2010
Member of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center

Kateryna Yushchenko
First lady of Ukraine 2005-2010
Member of Board of Trustees of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

You Excellency,

It is indeed an honour of mine to extend warm felicitations on the occasion of Your Excellency's birthday.

A day like this provides a perfect opportunity to reflect on life’s journey, and appreciate the strides made with an eye to the future that it may be even greater than today. Your Excellency’s able and prudent leadership has substantially contributed to the Republic of Azerbaijan‘s development and progress, while deeds of yours have rightfully earned you well-deserved respect amongst citizens and abroad.

The year 2020 brought many challenges to the world, magnified in no smaller manner due to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Notwithstanding the crises, important strides made in restoration of territorial integrity and advancement of key hydrocarbon infrastructure development, including the successful implementation of the state-of-art Southern Gas Corridor project, enhanced the Republic's recognition as a prominent international stakeholder and a sustainable energy supplier.

Following the tremendous opportunity back in 2018 when you graciously lent me a personal audience, it has been with great excitement that we have welcomed Azerbaijan’s official alignment with the other Member Countries of our organization throughout this year. This holds exceptional symbolic significance for us due to the historic contribution of the country in the exploitation of the oil and gas fields. Therefore, Your Excellency, please accept my sincere gratitude for the fruitful partnership and unwavering support.

With profound respect, taking stock of the impact Azerbaijan has had on the GECF, I would like to reaffirm the intent to further deepen the collaboration with your esteemed country in the run-up to the 6th GECF Summit of Heads of State and Government, to be held in Doha in 2021. It would be an hour of mine to welcome Your Excellency in person on such a landmark occasion for the Forum and the natural gas world.

Your Excellency, once again, I congratulate you and wish you many more years of service to your compatriots and the Republic of Azerbaijan as it continues to grow from strength to strength, despite challenging times.

Please accept, Your Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration and respect.

Yours sincerely,

Yury Sentyurin

Secretary General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear Mr. President,

Please accept my sincere congratulations on the occasion of your birthday. I wish you and your family good health and prosperity.

Taking this opportunity, I would also like to congratulate you and the people of Azerbaijan on the occasion of the Solidarity Day of World Azerbaijanis and the New Year. I convey my best wishes for continued success and well-being to you and the people of Azerbaijan.

We at BP attach great importance to Azerbaijan and are very proud of our presence here. Over the course of the last 28 years, we have delivered significant world-scale projects in the region. This would have been impossible without your leadership and support. We also highly appreciate the cooperation with the Government of Azerbaijan and SOCAR and look forward to continuing this fruitful and sustainable relationship in the future.

Sincerely,

 

Gary Jones

BP Regional President for Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear President, dear brother,

I express my warm congratulations and best wishes on the occasion of your birthday.

I am confident that the friendly and brotherly relations between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Azerbaijan will further develop and expand into all areas of mutual interests.

Taking this pleasant opportunity, I wish Your Excellency and your esteemed family strong health, happiness, and the friendly and brotherly people of Azerbaijan peace and prosperity.

Sincerely,

 

Šefik Džaferović

Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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To His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Esteemed Mr. President Aliyev, Your Excellency,

On the occasion of your birthday, I am offering my best and honest wishes for your good health, personal pleasure, and the prosperity of your country. May this new year in your life bring you health, happiness for you and your beautiful family, and prosperity for Azerbaijan.

Your Excellency, President Aliyev, I would like to thank you also for supporting the work of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center which gathers many of us around the ideas of understanding, tolerance and learning. Many meetings which the Nizami Ganjavi International Center organizes throughout the world are always an opportunity to get to meet participants better personally, but also to build always new bridges of friendship and understanding between people and peoples.

As you know, Mr. President, the driving force which gathers and pushes us forward is our Co-Chairs Madame Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Dr. Ismail Serageldin, and dedicated Secretary General, Rovshan Muradov. We perceive the Nizami Ganjavi International Center as a common home in which we have the mutual support of friends. Thank you for that opportunity and continues support.

Mr. President, I wish you a happy birthday and the fulfillment of all your wishes. I also use this opportunity to wish you a happy and successful 2021.

I will see you soon in Azerbaijan.

With utmost respect,

Jadranka Kosor

Former Prime Minister of Croatia

Member of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Your Excellency, dear friend,

On the occasion of your birthday, please accept my most sincere wishes for good health and happiness to you and your family, as well as my wishes for success and prosperity of the people of Azerbaijan!

Mr. President thank you for all your support been provided since its beginning to the Nizami Ganjavi International Center, its Co-Chairs, Board Members, Secretary General and his team.

Respectfully,

Petar Stoyanov

President of the Republic of Bulgaria 1997-2002

Member of Board of Trustees of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear President Aliyev,

Allow me to express my warmest congratulations on the occasion of your birthday, and to extend my best wishes for good health and happiness to you and your family.

Your Excellency has always been dedicated to the development of the Azerbaijan-WCO relations. I would like to reiterate my commitment to a continued close cooperation between the WCO and Azerbaijan, in contributing to the achievement of its national goals through the development and modernization of Customs. I am convinced that our ties will continue bringing mutual benefits in the coming years.

I take this opportunity to wish a happy and healthy 2021, prosperity and peace for your country and your citizens, and I look forward to meeting you again in the future.

Please accept, President Aliyev, the assurances of my highest consideration.

Yours sincerely,

 

Kunio Mikuriya

Secretary General of the World Customs Organization

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Your Excellency,

It is my pleasure to congratulate You, on behalf of the people of Georgia and on my own, on your birthday.

This day is an opportunity to reflect on the historical friendship between our two nations, rooted in centuries of common struggle. Our partnership is based on honesty and on the understanding that our challenges can be met with cooperation.

It saddens me to know that You are celebrating your birthday while the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage on across the world. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel. In this phase of the global crisis, we will continue to move forward through solidarity and through global equality, as vaccines start to be deployed across the world.

I also want to use this opportunity to emphasize how important peace in our region is. I once again welcome the restoration of peace, vital for the entire region and for our common development, prosperity, and stability.

I remain convinced that the world will come out of the current crisis with more unity and stronger than before. Once this pandemic subsides, I look forward to welcoming you to Georgia.

Mr. President, on your birthday, let me convey to You and to your family my wishes of health, strength and prosperity.

Warm and best wishes to Mrs. Mehriban.

Regards,

 

Salome Zourabichvili

President of Georgia

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Your Excellency,

Dear Mr. President,

Under your leadership Azerbaijan became modern, strong, respected and peaceful country, a good Friend and a trusted Partner for the global community. At Nizami Ganjavi International Center we are very proud to share and support this vision.

Happy Birthday!

Let you, your family and people of Azerbaijan be happy, healthy and full of optimism about the future!

Sincerely,

 

Rosen Plevneliev

President of the Republic of Bulgaria 2012-2017

Member of Board of Trustees of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Your Excellency, Mr. President Aliyev,

It is my pleasure taking the initiative of congratulating you cordially on the occasion of your birthday, on 24th December. I wish you continued success in your good ruling and administration of your beautiful country.

I was greatly privileged coming to Baku to the Second Global Shared Societies Forum in April, 2014. At the time I was serving as Co-President of the Club of Rome, a worldwide organization committed to support peaceful economic development under the restrictions of a limited Planet. You have been generous enough inviting the high-level guests to an important conversation with you personally.

I should like to emphasize that the Nizami Ganjavi International Center and Mr. Rovhsan Muradov have been and continue to be extremely helpful in spreading the spirit of tolerance and international cooperation.

With the expression of my highest appreciation, Your Excellency,

I remain truly yours,

 

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

Honorary President of the Club of Rome

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear Ilham Heydar oglu,

Please accept my cordial congratulations and best wishes on the occasion of your birthday.

Under your wise leadership, the brotherly Azerbaijan has made great strides in strengthening its statehood, increasing its international reputation and improving the welfare of its people.

Highly appreciating the current state of multilateral cooperation with Azerbaijan, I would like to especially note your personal attention and great contribution to the development of our relations of traditional brotherhood and good neighbourliness.

We are determined to further expand the time-tested political, trade, economic, cultural and humanitarian relations between our countries. We are strongly convinced that through our joint efforts Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan intergovernmental relations and multifaceted partnership will continue strengthening to the benefit of our nations.

Dear Ilham Heydar oglu, I avail myself of this opportunity to sincerely wish you good health, family happiness, and the brotherly people of your country peace, progress and prosperity.

Best regards,

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov

President of Turkmenistan

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear Mr. President,

I sincerely congratulate you on the occasion of your birthday.

I feel honored to wish you robust health, happiness and new accomplishments in your high state activities.

Mr. President, I wish you success in achieving the goals in the interest of your people’s welfare and progress.

I avail myself of this opportunity to express my hope that we will continue our joint endeavors to strengthen the friendly relations and develop the cooperation in every field of interest for the welfare of citizens of our countries.

Mr. President, please accept the assurances of my highest consideration.

Zoran Milanovic

President of the Republic of Croatia

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear Ilham Heydar oglu,

I cordially congratulate you on the occasion of your birthday. Your tireless activity, great talent and rich political experience contribute to the development of Azerbaijan and the advancement of your country's prestige on the international arena.

I am confident that based on the traditions of good neighborliness, mutual understanding and integration, the relations of strategic partnership between our countries will continue developing and strengthening dynamically in the interest of the welfare of our two nations.

Dear Ilham Heydar oglu, I avail myself of this opportunity to wish you the best of health and well-being, and the brotherly people of Azerbaijan peace and tranquility.

Best regards,

Nursultan Nazarbayev

First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan-Elbasy

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Esteemed Ilham Heydar oglu,

It gives me immense pleasure to extend my sincere congratulations and best wishes to you on the occasion of your birthday.

We know you as an experienced and skillful statesman, a glorious leader who has earned great love and confidence of the Azerbaijani people, an outstanding politician who has ensured the comprehensive enhancement of his country's prestige on the international arena, as well as a time-tested close friend of Uzbekistan, and we highly value this.

At the same time, let me once again congratulate Your Excellency on the achievement - due to your efforts - of the agreement on the cessation of military operations in Nagorno-Karabakh. This crucial decision, adopted in accordance with the resolutions and documents of the United Nations, is of great significance for ensuring long-lasting peace and sustainable development in the entire South Caucasus region.

I am sure that as a result of the forthcoming high-level meetings, as well as through our joint efforts, our multifaceted relations in the political, trade, economic, transport, communication, cultural and humanitarian fields will reach a completely new level.

I avail myself of this opportunity to wish you the best of health, family happiness, success in your state activities, and the brotherly people of Azerbaijan peace and prosperity.

Sincerely,

Shavkat Mirziyoyev
President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Dear Ilham Heydar oglu,
I cordially congratulate you on the occasion of your birthday. Your tireless activity, great talent and rich political experience contribute to the development of Azerbaijan and the advancement of your country's prestige on the international arena.
I am confident that based on the traditions of good neighborliness, mutual understanding and integration, the relations of strategic partnership between our countries will continue developing and strengthening dynamically in the interest of the welfare of our two nations.
Dear Ilham Heydar oglu, I avail myself of this opportunity to wish you the best of health and well-being, and the brotherly people of Azerbaijan peace and tranquility.
Best regards,

Nursultan Nazarbayev
First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan-Elbasy

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear Mr. President,

I extend my sincere congratulations and best wishes to you on the occasion of your birthday.

China-Azerbaijan relations have been developing dynamically over the recent years and mutual political trust is strengthening day by day. Bilateral cooperation between the two countries as part of the "Belt and Road" project, as well as interaction on the international arena is developing successfully and effectively. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, China and Azerbaijan have been sincerely supporting each other demonstrating firm friendship between the two nations. I attach great importance to the development of China-Azerbaijan relations. I am ready to continue making joint efforts together with you in order to deepen the bilateral ties of friendship and cooperation, mutually beneficial partnership in various areas to the benefit of our two countries and nations.

I wish you good health and well-being.

Sincerely,

Xi Jinping

Chairman of the People`s Republic of China

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Your Excellency,

It gives me much pleasure to extend to Your Excellency, my most sincere felicitations and best wishes on the anniversary of Your Excellency’s birthday.

Please accept my best wishes for your personal health, happiness.

Abdullah II

King of Jordan

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear Mr. President,

Mr. President, on the occasion of your birthday, I’d like to express my warmest wishes of long and healthy life, prosperity, peace for your people and happiness!

It has been and it is my pleasure and honor for me to cooperate with your country in my different capacities, and now I enjoy an excellent cooperation with the Nizami Ganjavi International Center, while admiring your strong and wise leadership in the whole Caucasus region.

Happy birthday Mr. President!

With my best regards,

Franco Frattini

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy

Member of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear President Aliyev,

On behalf of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, please accept our best wishes for a happy birthday!

Through our ongoing partnership with the Nizami Ganjavi International Center in Baku, we have learned of your longstanding support of their mission. We echo that support and applaud your commitment to peace and conflict resolution through their work.

Again, we wish you a very happy birthday and look forward to continued cooperation with the NGIC and the people of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Best regards,

Ambassador Susan M. Elliott

President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy

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His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Your Excellency,

Allow me to extend my very best wishes for a very happy birthday, may you have many more years of health and happiness. I look forward to the occasion of seeing you in Baku in 2021, whenever your calendar permits.

I would also like to re-iterate that all of us at the Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC) and the members of the Board of Trustees of the NGIC, are extending our heartfelt congratulations to you on your leadership as you presided over the recovery of the territories in Nagorno-Karabakh, thereby ensuring the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. We know that there is much more to be done in terms of resettlement of displaced persons and reconstruction after the damages of war, as far away as Ganja itself. But we are confident that Your Excellency’s abilities and wisdom will manage these difficult tasks most effectively. And in that context, may I also join the many who have expressed admiration and support for your important declarations concerning your commitment to the preservation of historical and cultural monuments, whatever their origin or religious affiliations. That was another important and enlightened gesture that should be better known in the rest of the world.

And I must also seize this occasion to thank you for your continued support to the Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC), which with the enormous work of its Secretary-General, Rovshan Muradov, has been able to arrange for the NGIC to organize or participate in more high-level meetings than ever before, although - due to the pandemic - all the meetings were on-line. We have been active partners with the most prestigious institutions, from the UN to European and American institutions, and from the World Academy of Art and Science to the Lancet, not to mention China.

Thus, despite the pandemic, the NGIC remained present and active on the international scene, and we gained new friends and partners, and we also maintained and expanded our presence on the social media.

Finally, allow me once more to thank Your Excellency for your trust in the Board and its Co-Chairs, our selected Secretary- General and his staff. We hope that you are fully satisfied by the results achieved by the NGIC in this exceptional year and we look forward to a return to a semblance of normalcy in 2021.

May you have a very happy birthday and many more years of health and happiness as you go from success to success.

Sincerely,

Ismail Serageldin

Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center

Emeritus Librarian of Alexandria

Vice President of the World Bank 1992-2000

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"His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear Mr. President,

On behalf of my husband Imants and myself, please accept our warmest congratulations and best wishes for an especially happy birthday. May you enjoy continued good health, personal happiness, good cheer and the love and support of your nation!

This happy occasion comes this year right after the historical recovery of territories belonging to Azerbaijan that had been so long separated from the mother country. I take this opportunity to renew my congratulations on the victories achieved under your leadership and through the sacrifices of the armed forces of your country. I offer my very best wishes for the full success of the daunting effort of reconstruction and resettlement that lies now before you and the citizens of Azerbaijan. I also look forward to the world (and the Internet) becoming better informed about your commitment and that of your government to the preservation of historical and cultural monuments, whatever their origin or religious affiliation.

As I am being joined in these greetings by my co-chair, Dr. Ismail Serageldin and my fellow members of the International Board of Trustees, I wish to thank you personally for your unwavering support to the Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC). Your trust in us and our mission has been amply rewarded by the remarkable achievements of the Center even in this terrible year 2020 of the pandemic. At a time when international travel and face-to-face meetings have become impossible, the NGIC has organized or participated in more high-level online meetings than ever before. We have been active partners with the most prestigious institutions, from the UNO and the World Academy of Art and Science to the European Union and China and their leading institutions. I personally have spent more time this year on NGIC affairs this year that in any other year before. You may be assured that the increasingly influential high-level international activities of the NGIC continue to raise the profile of Azerbaijan as an important country and gain ever new friends and partners in matters of international concern.

With assurances of my highest consideration, I remain, Mr. President,

Yours sincerely,

Vaira Vike-Freiberga

President of the Republic of Latvia 1999-2007

Co-chair of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center"

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"His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear Mr. President,

With my best wishes for a happy birthday to His Excellency President Ilham Aliyev.

With my best regards,

Turki Al Faisal,

Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Member of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center"

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"His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear President Ilham Aliyev,

Since the day of one’s birth, every man has a number of very important relationships that outlines his life. The first is with his mother and his father. They create the fundamental personality of the person. You had great parents full of wisdom of life. On this very special day I express my sincerest gratitude to your parents.

The second important relationship is with your nation. You have become smart, responsible and decisive leader to your people. This is a clear demonstration of your unique talents and your noble hard work throughout your lifetime. My great admiration of your work and your success.

The third important relationship is with your friends. I have a great honor to be your trusted friend for more than a decade. I am very proud and delighted about that.

Today from the bottom of my heart I wish you Happy Birthday my President. I am wishing you a good health and many active years full of wisdom to come.

Sincerely yours,

Valdis Zatlers

Former President of Latvia"

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"His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear Mr. President,

I would like to congratulate you on your birthday, and to wish you and to your close ones a good health, new successes in your endeavors for the future of the people of Azerbaijan!

Let me also to congratulate the entire people of Azerbaijan on a great historical victory, which made it possible to achieve the long-term goal of the Azerbaijani people and strengthen the commitment of the Republic of Azerbaijan to justice, international norms and principles of international law.

At this historical moment, 1 cannot but recall the great Heydar Aliyev, whose memory the Azerbaijani people and all of us keep constantly. You, dear Mr. President and Supreme Commander-in-Chief, made history in this historical period and became a great hero for the Azerbaijani people united around you! Mr. President thank you for Nizami Ganjavi International Center family, which is one of the most unique organizations.

Kyrgyz and Azerbaijani people relate to special ties thanks to common history, language, religion, and culture. Currently more than 20 thousand Azerbaijanis, who preserve their traditions, customs, and language live in my country, and feel here at home.

I am sure that under your leadership the relationships between our countries will develop and prosper even further.

With my best regards,

Djoomart Otorbaev

Former Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan

Member of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center"

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"His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Your Excellency,

Let me join my heartfelt congratulations to you on Your birthday.

Under your wise leadership, Azerbaijan has achieved tangible success in all spheres of life and enjoys a well-deserved prestige in the world arena.

You pay much attention to the strengthening and development of multilateral cultural and humanitarian cooperation, including the International Center of Nizami Ganjavi, whose activities are in great demand in the world community.

Allow me, Your Excellency, to sincerely wish you good health and success in activities aimed at strengthening the sovereignty and statehood of Azerbaijan, and to the talented and hardworking Azerbaijani peoples’ well-being and prosperity.

Sincerely,

Rashid Alimov

Former Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (2016-2018)

Member of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center"

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"His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Excellency,

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy birthday and a strong health and prosperity for you and your family!

Excellency, you are a distinguished head of state! The whole world followed the struggle of the people of Azerbaijan, led by you, for the integrity of your country. This time is also characterized by the fact that coronavirus worldwide has shaken people's lives and made changes in usual economic and social processes.

I would like to wish you to overcome all the challenges and every success in future dialogue, in order to establish mechanisms to preserve the territorial integrity of your country. I wish peace to your wonderful country and wellbeing to the people of Azerbaijan!

We are at Nizami Ganjavi International Center, your longstanding friends, always standing on your side.

Sincerely,

 

Laimdota Straujuma

Prime Minister of Latvia 2014-2016

Member of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center"

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"His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear President, my warmest greeting on your birthday!

I highly appreciate the friendship, mutual respect, and close ties between Latvia and Azerbaijan.

I hope that the next year will be full of joy and personal happiness.

Wishing you all the best in the year to come.

Raimonds Vejonis

 

President of the Republic of Latvia 2015-2019

Member of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center"

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"His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear President Aliyev,

My sincere congratulations on the occasion of your birthday.

Your personal life is closely intertwined with the life of your special nation – Azerbaijan.

Your dedication to your people, successfully leading them and your nation through national and international challenges, and your remarkable achievements are highly respected.

Your leadership will always be remembered, and will be learned by generations to come.

The vision of tolerance as expressed by the Nizami Ganjavi International Center is a source of inspiration to many.

I wish you, on this special day, a happy birthday and continued success in your future endeavors.

Best wishes,

 

Tzipi Livni

Former Foreign Minister of Israel"

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"His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Your Excellency,

Dear President Aliyev,

I would like to express my best wishes to you and to congratulate your birthday!

During my presidency, I had several opportunities to meet you and have the best memories of your official visit to Croatia and my official visit to Azerbaijan. We had several opportunities to discuss bilateral and global issues during international meetings. I appreciate your very important role in international relations. Excellent relations of our countries for many years, continued also during the mandate of my successor H.E. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic shows long-term mutual respect and friendship. Hope, our countries shall continue cooperation. Also, development of Azerbaijan during your presidency is really impressive. Hope, under your leadership Azerbaijan shall peacefully reintegrate occupied territories and continue successful development.

Today, I am proud to be member of the BOT of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center. Its important role in international community, being one of the most visible NGOs of that kind, is possible due to your great support. Activities of the NGIG is contributing to international understanding and position of Azerbaijan in international community as well. Thank you again for your precious support!

I wish you long life, health and happiness!

Sincerely,

Ivo Josipovic

President of the Republic of Croatia 2010-2015"

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"His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Dear Mr. President,

Dear Friend,

As former prime minister of Hungary, a country maintaining good and friendly relations with Azerbaijan and its leaders, and also a permanent participant of the Baku Forum and member of the Board of Nizami Ganjavi International Center, it gives me great pleasure to send you my best wishes of success, health and happiness on your birthday.

I highly appreciate your work and your commitment to build a better world and I value your important contribution to this goal. This is a great achievement that Azerbaijan made under your leadership on the international scene during the past years, in order to improve multilateralism, tolerance and the elimination of discrimination, which is so important to the world.

Reiterating my best birthday wishes, I also wish you and your family a very happy year 2021.

Sincerely,

 

Peter Medgyessy

Former Prime Minister of Hungary"

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"His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Your Excellency, let me congratulate you on your birthday. It has been a historic year for your nation guided under your leadership and strengthened with your unwavering dedication to the prosperous future of Azerbaijan.

I wish you many happy returns, it has been a privilege for the Nizami Ganjavi International Center to enjoy your support and benefit from your wisdom and experience which you so generously share with us.

Sincerely,

 

Eka Tkeshelashvili

Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia 2010-2012

Member of Board of Trustees of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center"

 

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