Your Excellency,

On behalf of the Government and people of the Maldives and on my own behalf, I am pleased to convey to Your Excellency, the Government and people of Azerbaijan my most sincere congratulations and best wishes on the occasion of the anniversary of the proclamation of independence.

Your Excellency, please accept my wishes for good health and happiness to you, and sustainable progress and prosperity to the people of Azerbaijan.

Mohammed Waheed

President of the Republic of Maldives