OFFICIAL NEWS
TO PEOPLE’S POET VAGIF SAMADOGLU
I offer my heartfelt congratulations to You, the renowned poet of our people, on the 65th Jubilee.
You are one of the worthiest representatives of the generation of masters, who brought new ideas to our literature of 60-70s. Your works reflecting the inner world of the modern man, his thoughts about the world and the time and his searches, have always been met by readers with great interest.
The large number of Your lyrics set to music indicates that You, as a literary successor of our outstanding poet Samad Vurgun, has skillfully enriched Yourself with inexhaustible poetic capabilities of our tongue, and managed to create splendid patterns of mastery.
Your public activity is a graphic evidence of practical realization of ideas, dreams embodied in Your literary works. I am confident that You will continue to apply Your knowledge and skills for all-sided development of independent Azerbaijan Republic.
Please, accept my best wishes for Your long life, good health and new creative success.
Ilham Aliyev
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Baku, 5th of June 2004