Muscat: On the occasion of the New Hijri Year and the anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) Hijra, His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has exchanged greetings cables with leaders of the sisterly and friendly Arab and Muslim countries.
In his cables, His Majesty the Sultan expressed his sincere greetings and best wishes of good health, happiness and a long life for them, praying to Allah the Almighty for the return of this happy occasion on them and make the New Year, a year of welfare and peace for all peoples and the Islamic nation further progress and prosperity.
In their cables to the country's Monarch, the leaders of the sisterly and friendly countries expressed their sincere greetings and best wishes of good health, happiness and a long life to His Majesty the Sultan, praying to Allah the Almighty for the return of this blessed occasion on His Majesty for many years to come to achieve all aspirations of further progress, welfare and prosperity for his faithful people and all Muslims wellbeing and progress.
His Majesty the Sultan has exchanged cables of congratulations with the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, Emir of Kuwait, King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, King Mohammed VI of the Kingdom of Morocco, Dr Mohammed Moncef Marzouki, President of the Tunisian Republic, President Abdul Aziz Bouteflika of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, President Ismail Omar Guelleh of the Republic of Djibouti, Field Marshal Omar Hassan Ahmed Al Bashir, President of the Republic of Sudan, President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud of the Democratic Republic of Somalia, President Dr Fuad Masum of the Republic of Iraq, President Mahmoud Abbas of the State of Palestine, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), President Dr Ikililou Dhoinine of the Union of the Comoros, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi of the Arab Republic of Egypt, President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, President Field Marshal Abd Rabu Mansur Hadi of the Yemeni Republic, Sultan Haji Hassan Al Bolkiah of Brunei Darussalam, King Al Wathiq Billahi Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah of Malaysia, President Ilham Heydar Alyev of the Republic of Azerbaijan, President Dr Ashraf Ghani of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, President Joko Widodo, President of the Republic of Indonesia, President Islam Karimov of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Dr Hassan Rouhani, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, President Mamnoon Hussain of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, President Mohammad Abdul Hamid of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov of the Republic of Turkmenistan, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Republic of Turkey, President Idriss Deby of the Republic of Chad, President Ali Bongo of the Republic of Gabon, President Yahya Jammeh of the Republic of Gambia, President Macky Sall of the Republic of Senegal, President Imomali Rakhmonov of the Republic of Tajikistan, President Almazbek Atambayev of the Kyrgyz Republic, President Nursultan Nazarbayev of the Republic of Kazakhstan, President Abdulla Yameen of the Republic of the Maldives, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita of the Republic of Mali, President Mahamadou Issoufou of the Republic of Niger, President Alassane Ouattara Republic of Cote d'Ivoire and President Alpha Conde of the Republic of Guinea.