BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 23. The Consultative
Council of Religious Confessions in Azerbaijan addressed an appeal
to President Ilham Aliyev, Trend reports.
"Dear Mr. President,
Thanks be to the Almighty for granting us the happiness of
congratulating Your Excellency on your continued success and
achievements. We sincerely congratulate Your Excellency on being
awarded the international Zayed Award for Human Fraternity in
recognition of your efforts toward achieving peace between
Azerbaijan and Armenia. We wish you continued achievements in your
activities for the sake of supreme human values.
Following the great Garabagh Victory won under the leadership of
Your Excellency, you are giving the people of Azerbaijan the pride
of celebrating historically significant victories and prestigious
international awards at the global political and diplomatic level.
Your ideas and initiatives serving human fraternity on a global
scale bring invincibility, trust, and respect to the state of
Azerbaijan at the international level. The fact that you have been
decorated with this prestigious award, which was established on the
basis of a document signed by Ahmed El-Tayeb, Grand Imam of
Al-Azhar and Chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders - where,
thanks to your blessing, Azerbaijan is represented by the
Sheikh-ul-Islam - as well as by the late Pope Francis, represents
recognition by the human family of your efforts and deeds that are
pleasing to the Almighty.
We are proud that Azerbaijan’s exemplary model of interfaith
cooperation, multiculturalism, and understanding is appreciated
around the globe, and this is the fruit of Your Excellency’s modern
and visionary public policy. Progress and prosperity are impossible
without peace, stability, and mutual understanding, and Your
Excellency’s activities in this direction as the political leader
of Azerbaijan deserve the kindest words and the highest awards.
Your Excellency’s position at the forefront of the world’s peace
agenda, and your participation as a founder of the Board of Peace,
is yet another vivid example of your valuable activities in the
name of ideals that are pleasing to the Almighty. Seeing Your
Excellency as a founder of such a prestigious body at the global
level fills us with pride and evokes admiration among religious
people, who are an integral part of the people of Azerbaijan. We
are confident that this historic step of yours will play a major
role in building global peace and eliminating the threats and
dangers that cause concern for humanity, Inshallah. Our prayers are
with you. May Almighty Allah protect you and your valuable
family!
We, as leaders of the religious confessions of the country led
by Your Excellency, feel infinite pride in having you as a
world-class leader and wise statesman who has succeeded in
strengthening the policy of the state of Azerbaijan, based on
national spiritual and universal multicultural values founded by
National Leader Heydar Aliyev, on an international scale. As people
who experience this pride at the most prestigious international
events beyond the borders of our country, we ask the Almighty to
bless your activities.
Your Excellency, you are a powerful political figure who has
raised the name of Azerbaijan and the glory of its people to great
heights. On behalf of the religious people of Azerbaijan, we would
like to express our deep gratitude to Your Excellency for the
successes and achievements you have brought to Azerbaijan in all
spheres of life thanks to your visionary statehood philosophy. We
convey to you our best wishes and blessings. We pray to Almighty
Allah to bless the efforts and deeds of our Leader, who is
distinguished by respect for national spiritual and universal
values, is an active participant and founder of the Board of Peace
on a global scale, and is a Victorious Leader decorated with the
highest award.
May the Almighty protect the state of Azerbaijan and always keep
Your Excellency at the pinnacle. Amen!
With deep respect and reverence,
Sheikh-ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazada
Chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Office
Aleksiy
Bishop of the Baku and Azerbaijan of the Russian Orthodox
Church
Vladimir Fekete
Ordinary of the Apostolic Prefecture of the Roman Catholic
Church in Azerbaijan
Milikh Yevdayev
Head of the Community of Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan
Aleksandr Sharovskiy
Head of the Community of European Jews in Baku
Robert Mobili
Chairman of the Albanian-Udi Christian Religious Community
Zamir Isayev
Head of the Baku religious community of Sephardic Jews".
