Dear pupils, students, teachers and lecturers, education officials,

I congratulate you on the start of the new academic year and the Knowledge and School Day. For centuries, writing and education have been one of the foundations of our existence, and today it is time to serve knowledge for the benefit of state-building, to empower our motherland, to present ourselves to the world with dignity. We have one path of development and prosperity – and that is education; patriotism and worldview derive from education. Now we are at the stage of reforms in the field of education. Reforms that are aimed at creating a patriotic individual, law-abiding citizen, a professional specialist from each pupil. I am sure that we will succeed together.

Dear pupils, the last year has been a difficult way of sobering up, reviewing our values, re-analyzing what we have done and what we are going to do. Do love education, multiply your abilities, strive to make the most in your chosen field. Let the new academic year inspire you with new hopes, a striving spirit for knowledge and unwavering diligence, so that knowledge and learning, spiritual and moral values are constant and fundamental in the lives of our people.

Dear teachers, I am thankful to each of you for overcoming the difficult days together, for not giving in to the existing challenges, for working with multiplied dedication. Now, more than ever, join your efforts: every contribution is important for the development of the State. Let's fulfill our mission with high responsibility and create the homeland of our dreams.

Let the new academic year become the path of light and kindness…