Your Excellency,

We were deeply saddened by the news of the death of people in fire in a multistory building in Baku.

We share your grief, and on behalf of the Board Members of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center, offer deep condolences to you, families and relatives of those who died and all the people of Azerbaijan.

Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Co-chair, President, Republic of Latvia (1999-2007),

Ismail Serageldin, Co-chair, Director of the Library of Alexandria,

Petar Stoyanov, BoT Member, President of Bulgaria (1997-2002),

Emil Constantinescu, BoT Member, President of Romania (1996-2000),

Boris Tadic, BoT Member, President of Serbia (2004-2012),

Viktor Yushchenko, Member, President of Ukraine (2005-2010)