His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam has consented to receive congratulatory messages from the heads of states and foreign dignitaries in conjunction with the 23rd National Day of Negara Brunei Darussalam.
The messages were from His Majesty Al-Wathiqu Billah Al-Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin ibni Al-Mahrum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah, Yang Di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia; His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of the Kingdom of Thailand; His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates; His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden; His Majesty King Albert II, King of Belgium; Her Majesty Queen Koningin Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgrad, Queen of the Netherlands; His Majesty Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia; Dr. H. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of the Republic of Indonesia; Mr S. R. Nathan, President of the Republic of Singapore; Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar; Mr Choummaly Sayasone, President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic; Mrs Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philipines; Mr Nguyen Minh Triet, State President of Socialist Republic of Vietnam; Mr Horst Kohler, President of the Federal Republic of Germany; Mr Vladimir V. Putin, President of the Russian Federation; Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of the Republic of India; General Pervez Musharraf, President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Major General Michael Jeffery, Governor-General of Australia; Mr Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan; Mrs Michaelle Jean, Governor-General of Canada; Dr. Bashar Al-Assad, President of the Syrian Arab Republic; Mr Stjepan Mesic, President of the Republic of Croatia; Mr George W. Bush, President of the United States of America; Mr Lech Kaczynski, President of the Republic of Poland; Mr Roh Moo-hyun, President of the Republic of Korea; Professor Dr. Iajuddin Ahmed, President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh; Mr. Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China; Mr Jacques Chirac, President of the Republic of France; Mr Nursultan Nazabayev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Mr Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of the Republic of Tunisia; Mr Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine; Mr Ahmet Necdet Sezer, President of the Republic of Turkey; Mr Boni Yayi, President of the Republic of Benin; Mr Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, President of the United Mexican States; Mrs Micheline Calmy-Rey, President of The Swiss Confederation; Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai.
Congratulatory messages also came from Dato' Seri Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister of Malaysia; Mr Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore; General Soe Win, Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar; Mr Bouasone Bouphavanh, Prime Minister of the Lao's People Democratic Republic; Mr Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia; Mr Nguyen Tan Dung, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; Mr Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Mr Mohamed Ghannouchi, Prime Minister of the Republic of Tunisia; Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed, Chief Adviser to the Non-Party Caretaker Government People's Republic of Bangladesh and Mr Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations.
(23rd February 2007)
