President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan sent a congratulatory letter to President Joe Biden of the United States on the latter’s Independence Day anniversary, Azerbaijani media reported.

The Azerbaijani president emphasized, among others, the "critical cooperation in the energy sector," and US assistance the normalization of Baku-Yerevan relations.

"Presently, a favorable environment has emerged for ushering in lasting peace in the South Caucasus. We highly appreciate the efforts by the U.S. in normalizing Armenia-Azerbaijan relations and the process of preparing the peace agreement based on the norms and principles of international law," the president of Azerbaijan said, in particular, in his congratulatory message to the US president.