Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz has sent cables of congratulations to kings, emirs and presidents of Arab and Islamic countries on the advent of the holy month of Ramadan. They were President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, King of Jordan Abdullah II, President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, President of United Arab Emirates Khalifa bin Zayid Al-Nuhayyan, President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, President of Iran Mahmud Ahmadi Nejad, President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf, Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah, President of Bangladesh Iajuddin Ahmed, President of Turkey Ahmet Necdet Sezer, President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Chad Idriss Deby, President of Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of Gabon El-Hadj Omar Bongo, President of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh, President of Senegal Abdoulaye wade, President of Sudan Umar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir, President of Syria Bashar Al-Assad, President of Sierra Leone Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President of Somalia Abdullahi Yusuf, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmonov, Sultan of Oman Qaboos bin Said Al-Said, Head of State of Gambia Yahya Jammeh, President of Guinea Lansana Conte, President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas, Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, President of Comoros Assoumani Azili, President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Jabir Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, President of Maldives Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of Mali Amadou Toumani Toure, King of Malaysia Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, President of Egypt Mohammed Hosni Mubarak, King of Morocco Mohamed VI, President of Niger Mamadou Tandja and President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Salih.
