OFFICIAL NEWS
H.E. MR. ILHAM ALIYEVPRIME MINISTER REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN
Dear Ilham Heydarovich,
Please, accept my cordial congratulations on your election to the post of the President of Azerbaijan. I am sure that you will do your best, use your talent in the name of people of Azerbaijan, who expressed trust to you as to a safe leader for the republic, for its welfare multiplied and flourished. I am sure that you will continue the work and services of your father -= a great son of people of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev, and I wish him recovery and longevity. You are facing, dear Ilham Heydarovich a complicated and important service.
Let God help you. Let him strengthen and multiply your moral and physical force, give you wisdom and bless your good intentions. I recall warmly our meeting at the reception given by your father Heydar Aliyev in the out-of-town residence.
Sincerely yours,
Aleksey
Patriarch of Moscow and Russia
Moscow, October 20, 2003