Dear pupils, students, parents and teachers, I heartily congratulate you on the beginning of the new academic year and the Day of Knowledge and Education. I wish all the best to the children who enter the first grade in the new academic year and to the young people admitted to higher educational institutions. The doors of a completely new life will open in front of you in the future, when every day you will discover something new for yourself and get new knowledge and life experience. Try to make the most useful and effective use of this period. Tomorrow you will use the education you received today to make our motherland more prosperous and developing. Cross the threshold of the educational institution with this very awareness. Remember that knowledge is an invaluable power and only by acquiring a good supply of knowledge through education, it is possible to realize all cherished dreams and desires. On this festive day, I would like to express my immense respect and gratitude to the teachers and professors for their invaluable work. They play the most important role in educating and upbringing our children. It depends on them what knowledge our children will get and what moral principles they will be guided by in this life. With special warmth, I congratulate all our schoolchildren and students of besieged Artsakh, their pedagogues and professors, who continue staying on their land, continue living, being educated and educating in their historical homeland, regardless of the created inhumane conditions. All glory and honor to you! God bless us all!