STEPANAKERT.- President of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan send a congratulatory message to President of Pridnestrovien Moldavian Republic Igor Smirnov.

He congratulated citizens of the republic on the 21st anniversary of independence.

During these years people and authorities of Transnistria have been solving crucial problems of state building, defending freedom and independence of the country, laying foundation of a dynamic economic development, the letter says.