President keeps receiving congratulations from foreign officials on 18th anniversary of Independence

"Within the last 18 years the Kazakh people under your leadership made every effort on state construction, moving forward on its development way that fully corresponds to the real conditions in the country. Due to it, today Kazakhstan displays firm political stability, sustainable socio-economic development, permanent improvement of the living conditions of people and the image of the country at the international arena", President Hu Jintao said in his address to the Kazakh President.
King of Saudi Arabia Abdullah Ibn Abdel Aziz Al Saud on behalf of his people and on his behalf expressed his congratulations to N.Nazarbayev and wished good health, happiness, further progress and prosperity to the Kazakh people.
President of the Federal Republic of Germany Horst Köhler addressed his congratulations to the President and people of Kazakhstan, stressing that Kazakhstan will chair the OSCE in 2010 during the important period for European security and cooperation. According to the German President, Kazakhstan will cope with this problem successfully.
Emperor of Japan Akihito expressed congratulations and sincere good wishes of happiness and prosperity to the Head of our State and the Kazakh people.
Heads of the CIS member states - Presidents of Russia D.Medvedev, Belarus A.Lukashenko, Azerbaijan I.Aliyev, Uzbekistan I.Karimov, Ukraine V.Yushchenko, Turkmenistan G.Berdymukhammedov, Armenia S.Sargsyan sent their best wishes to the President as well.
Presidents of India P.Patil, Sri Lanka M. Rajapaksa, Korea Lee Myung-bak, Georgia Micheil Saakashvili, Croatia Stjepan Mesic, Ireland Mary McAleese, Lebanon Michel Suleiman, Greece K. Papoulias Poland Lech Kaczyński and Chairman of State Council and Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, Raúl Castro and Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh congratulated our country as well.
Congratulations of the main national holiday of Kazakhstan were received from King Albert II of Belgium, Queen of the Netherlands Beatrix, Prince of Kuwait Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as well.
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill and Pope Benedict XVI wished happiness to people of Kazakhstan and the Kazakh President.