The message reads, in part:
Raising and educating young children, providing opportunities for their development are fundamental social concerns, without any doubt. This topic has been widely discussed both on the international and the national level. Representatives of government bodies and non-governmental organisations, experts and scholars have been involved in the discussion. And your authoritative forum, held under the auspices of UNESCO, is meant to develop a common action plan on implementing major principles and approaches towards early childhood education, increasing its quality and accessibility, raising this generation to be healthy.
The Russian government is paying special attention to legislative guarantees of children's rights, including those of the youngest ones. An entire network of core preschool institutions has been established and continuously developed, and state demographic programmes for supporting mothers and children have been implemented.
I am confident that this experience will be interesting and useful to our foreign guests and that the conferees will exchange views and prepare a number of constructive and substantial solutions.