PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA CONGRATULATES TEACHERS AND PUPILS ON DAY OF KNOWLEDGE

Arka News Agency, Armenia
Aug. 31, 2006

YEREVAN, August 31. /ARKA/. President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan
congratulated teachers and pupils on the Day of Knowledge.

"High-quality education have always been priority aim for our nation.

Armenia’s future is multilaterally developed generation, rich with
knowledge", Kocharyan noted in his congratulating message, provided to
ARKA News agency by the Press Service of the president on Wednesday
The message says, "Today educational reforms are in the center of
special attention of the authorities, and they must be carried out
combined with best traditions and new tendencies".

Kocharyan finds that educational programs must be aimed at training
qualified specialists for science intensive economy and sphere of
high technologies.

"Special attention must be focused on children, having special
educational needs, since nobody must be left out from the public
educational process", the Message notes.

Kocharyan wished high school results to pupils and success to teachers
in their gratifying labor.