Azerbaijan Receives Condolences from International Community Over Plane Crash

Messages of condolence from the international community continue to reach Azerbaijan following the tragic crash of an AZAL plane operating the Baku-Grozny route, The Caspian Post reports, citing local media.

Among those expressing their sympathies are Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China; Andrzej Duda, President of the Republic of Poland; Mohamed Muizzu, President of the Maldives; Ramchandra Paudel, President of Nepal; Mahmoud Abbas, President of Palestine; Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates; Peter Pellegrini, President of Slovakia; Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King of Saudi Arabia; Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of Egypt; Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al Sabah, Amir of the State of Kuwait; Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Crown Prince of the State of Kuwait; Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Prime Minister of the State of Kuwait; António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations; Matthew Miller, Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State; Farah Dakhlallah, Spokesperson for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); Alain Berset, Secretary General of the Council of Europe; Andrija Mandić, President of the Parliament of Montenegro; Ahmad al-Safadi, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; Juan Esteban Lazo Hernández, President of the National Assembly of People’s Power of Cuba; Zhang Ming, Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization; and Kubanychbek Omuraliev, Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States.

Additionally, the speakers of the parliaments of Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the secretariat of the Council of the CIS Parliamentary Assembly, the Muslim Council of Elders, foreign ministers from numerous countries, embassies in Azerbaijan, and officials from international organizations have offered their condolences. They expressed their deep sympathies to the families and loved ones of the victims and wished a swift recovery to the injured.