President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has sent a Congratulatory Message to her colleague, the President of the Republic of Madagascar, His Excellency Mr. Hery Rajaonarimampiania on that country’s 57^th Independence Anniversary on June 26.

The Republic of Madagascar celebrates its Independence Anniversary on June 26, each year, the day in 1960, Madagascar proclaimed its independence from France as the Malagasy Republic.

According to a Foreign Ministry release, President Sirleaf, on behalf of the Government and people of Liberia and in her own name, extended warmest congratulations and best wishes to President Rajaonarimampiania, and through him the Government and people of the Republic of Madagascar.

The Liberian president said, “As the people of the Republic of Madagascar commemorate this occasion, it brings me delight to assure you of my Government’s determination to continue to strengthen the cordial relations subsisting between our two countries, in our endeavors to improve the well-being of our peoples and to lead our countries to a brighter future.”