Your Excellency, Mr. President,

It is an honor for us, the participants of the Global Summit of Religious Leaders held under the slogan “World Religions for a Green Planet” in Baku on November 5-6, 2024, within the frame of the 29th session of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 29), to extend our sincere greetings and best wishes to Your Excellency.

The patronage of the Global Summit of Religious Leaders by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the special attention given by Your Excellency to our event is of great value. We regard the COP 29 Baku Summit as a significant achievement for the people and state of Azerbaijan, and we commend Your Excellency's declaration of 2024 as the "Year of Solidarity for a Green World" in Azerbaijan as a valuable global initiative aimed at fostering Human solidarity for the sake of the future of our planet. We appreciate Azerbaijan's commitment to environmental protection and its effective measures in this regard, evaluating it as a significant action towards restoring the divine order on Earth.

Your Excellency! As Religious Leaders, we hope that the COP 29 Summit held in Azerbaijan will serve as a beneficial and effective platform for calls for peace and global ceasefire. We express our support for the Azerbaijani state’s call for global ceasefire. The recent historical realities faced by Azerbaijan further prove that the world is still confronted with the clash of constructive and destructive forces. In the face of the military crimes and ecological terror, we see in Azerbaijan a state that addresses the severe consequences of crimes against nature and the environment, conducts restoration works based on the foundations of a green economy powered by alternative energy, and restores ecological balance in the region. Today, the Azerbaijani state, which has restored its territorial integrity, demonstrates to the world an exemplary model of overcoming the dire consequences of ecocide, urbicide, and culturcide.

Your Excellency, with your wise statecraft, you have affirmed Azerbaijan's territorial integrity and sovereign rights over its ancestral lands. By restoring mosques and temples, as well as monuments of cultural and spiritual heritage of various religions in the liberated territories, you elevate yourself before the Almighty Creator and in the hearts of believers. The comprehensive reconstruction, the rebuilding of cities and villages, and the implementation of modern infrastructure projects are a testament to your commitment and that of Azerbaijan's First Vice President, Her Excellency Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva, to spiritual revival and a promising future. We wish Your Excellency and your esteemed family blessings from the Almighty for bringing new life to the Houses of the Almighty!

Your Excellency, Mr. President! We cordially support Your Excellency's resolute stand against racial and religious intolerance and xenophobia in the pursuit of human fraternity. Thanks to your political will, Azerbaijan has become a traditional venue for numerous internationally significant events and prestigious summits focused on dialogue and cooperation among religions, cultures, and civilizations. Your support and blessing for inter-civilizational cooperation at the state level inspires us to continue our efforts. We hope that gatherings of world religious leaders will continue as a platform for interfaith cooperation, and that Azerbaijan’s cultural capital, Shusha, will transform into a traditional venue for these meetings.

Your Excellency! We are honored to express our deep gratitude for your valuable practical contributions to the process of world-wide interfaith and intercultural cooperation, for your supreme patronage of the Global Summit of Religious Leaders. Please accept our best wishes for your important human activities, pleasing to our One Creator. We are sure that under your wise leadership, the people and the state of Azerbaijan will achieve greater successes at the international level. We pray to our Great Creator to bless the efforts and actions of your Excellency. Amen!

Faithfully,

Participants of the Global Summit of Religious Leaders within COP29

Baku, November 6, 2024