Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Deputy Premier, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General, has sent a number of cables to leaders of Arab and Islamic states, congratulating them on the advent of the blessed Eid Al-Adh-ha. The cables were sent to Azerbaijan's President Ilham Heydar Aliyev, Jordan's King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein, Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, UAE's President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Uzbekistan's President Islom Karimov, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Bangladesh's President Iajuddin Ahmad, Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkey's President Abdullah Gul, Chad's President Idriss Deby, Tunisia's President Zine El Abidine bin Ali, Gabon's President Omar Bongo, Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh, Algeria's President Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika, Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, Sudan's President Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir, Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon, Iraq's President Jalal Talabani, Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said, Guinea's President Lansana Conte, President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas, Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Comoros' President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, Kyrgyzstan's President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbaev, Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Maldives's President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Mali's President Amadou Toumani Toure, Malaysia's Paramount Ruler Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah, Egypt's President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, Morocco's King Mohammed VI, Mauritania's President Ould Sidi Mohamed Sheikh Abdullah, Niger's President Mamadou Tandja, Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'adua and Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh. In his cables, the Crown Prince wished the Leaders permanent good health and happiness and their peoples steady progress and prosperity.