His Majesty Sultan Qaboos has exchanged greetings with leaders of brotherly and friendly countries on the occasion of Eid al Adha. His Majesty the Sultan expressed his sincere sentiments to the leaders and wished the peoples of their countries progress and prosperity. He prayed to the Almighty to grant them happiness and to achieve their aspirations and wished all Muslims bounties and blessings. The leaders wished His Majesty good health, happiness and a long life and the Omani people further progress and prosperity under His Majesty’s wise leadership. They wished the Islamic world welfare and blessings.

His Majesty the Sultan exchanged congratulatory cables with King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud of Saudi Arabia, Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), King Hamad bin Issa al Khalifa of Bahrain, Shaikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, Emir of Qatar, Shaikh Sabah al Ahmed al Jaber al Sabah, Emir of Kuwait, King Abdallah of Jordan, King Mohammed VI of Morocco, President Zine al Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia, President Abdulaziz Bouteflika of Algeria, President Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti, President Omar Hassan Ahmed al Bashir of Sudan, President (Dr) Bashar al Assad of Syria, President Shaikh Sharif Shaikh Ahmed of Somalia, President Jalal Talabani of Iraq, Mahmud Abbas, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority, President Ahmad Abdullah Sambi of the Comoros, President Muammar al Gaddafi of Libya, President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz of Mauritania, President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, Sultan Haji Hassan al Bolkiah of Brunei Darussalam, Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, Paramount Ruler of Malaysia, President Ilham Haidar Aliyev of Azerbaijan, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, President (Dr) Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia, President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan, President (Dr) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan, President Mohammad Zillur Rahman of Bangladesh, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov of Turkmenistan, President Abdullah Gul of Turkey, President Idriss Deby of Chad, President Ali Omar Bongo of Gabon, President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia, President Abdullah Wade of Senegal, President Imomali Rakhmonov of Tajikistan, President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev of Kyrgyzstan, President Mohamed Anni Nasheed of the Maldives, President Amadou Toumani of Mali, President Mamadou Tandja of Niger and President Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria