Dear people, dear citizens of the Republic of Armenia,

On May 1, we celebrate the International Workers' Day, and I want to congratulate all of us on the occasion of the day.

Civilization is formed and develops as a result of work, and labor is the tool with which it is possible to make the life of an individual and society better. The key work in what has been said is “possible.” Work, of course, is a necessary but not sufficient condition for making the life of an individual and society better, because only effective work brings satisfactory results, and in order to be effective, work must be based on knowledge, continuously developing skills, that is, education and being educated.

Usually, when we say education, knowledge, knowledge-based labor, we associatively understand scientific, technical, technological, research work, which, of course, is not wrong.
But any work is much more effective when it is based on the practice of expanding and enriching one’s own knowledge about the given work, its nuances and peculiarities. This applies to everything: craft, art, entrepreneurship, agriculture, pedagogy, state, military, community service, labor and leadership, and those states and societies that are guided by this logic have achieved and continue to achieve prosperity.

The government and the ruling majority lead the Republic of Armenia with this logic, understanding that this is not an easy path, because talking about the need to expand knowledge, develop skills means recording that there is something that we do not know.

And sometimes, it is not easy to admit at the individual, public, and state levels that we do not know something, although it is obvious that there is no one who knows everything. And perhaps we should have the strength to admit that we live badly to the extent of what we do not know and live well to the extent of what we know, and in order to expand our well-being, we need to reduce the volume of what we do not know and expand the volume of what we know, and this is possible through the closest interconnection of work and education, education and work.

Dear people, dear citizens of the Republic of Armenia,

I congratulate you all on the Workers' Day and I wish that work means enjoyment of the result and creative joy for all our citizens, our society, because work should be a means of creating a result and enjoying that result.

Long live the Republic of Armenia.