To His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates

Your Highness,
Dear Brother,

On my own behalf and on behalf of the people of Azerbaijan, I am pleased to convey to you, and through you to all your fraternal people, my sincerest congratulations and best wishes on the occasion of the national holiday of the United Arab Emirates – Independence Day.

We are immensely pleased to witness the large-scale construction initiatives being implemented across the country under your resolute leadership, resulting in remarkable and exemplary progress. All of this has been made possible thanks to your multifaceted activity, wise leadership, and tireless service to the Motherland and your people.

Relations between Azerbaijan and the United Arab Emirates are based on brotherhood, friendship, mutual trust, understanding, and support between our peoples. It is gratifying that our interstate relations, built on these solid foundations, have developed along an upward trajectory over the past period and reached a qualitatively new level. Undoubtedly, high-level regular reciprocal visits, meetings, and close cooperation contribute to the further rapid development and strengthening of these relations.

Your official visit to Azerbaijan in September provided a new impetus to the advancement of our bilateral relations. The documents signed during the visit, particularly the “Joint Declaration on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Relations between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the United Arab Emirates,” have elevated our interstate relations to a higher level and expanded our interaction across new domains, alongside the traditional areas of cooperation. At the same time, your visit to the liberated Karabakh region during your trip holds profound symbolic meaning, and we regard it as a clear example of our brotherhood and solidarity.

Currently, the cooperation agenda between Azerbaijan and the United Arab Emirates covers a broad range of areas. Our fruitful joint activities in the economic and trade, oil and gas, renewable energy, investment, digitalization, and other fields are developing successfully.

I am confident that we will consistently and successfully continue our joint efforts to strengthen and diversify our cooperation in a way that will serve the well-being of our countries and peoples.

On this festive day, I wish you robust health, happiness, success in your high state activities, and the brotherly people of the United Arab Emirates everlasting peace and prosperity.

Sincerely,

Ilham Aliyev

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Baku, 28 November 2025