The message reads, in part:
“First of all, I would like to address our compatriots present here today with my warmest words of gratitude. Thank you for your significant creative contribution to the implementation of vital educational, publishing, and cultural projects. This multifaceted activity plays an exceptionally important role in promoting the Russian language and literature around the world and in strengthening the Russian-language information space.
I would like to emphasise that the main theme of this Assembly reflects Russia’s unwavering commitment to developing international humanitarian cooperation and equal dialogue, as well as to promoting enduring spiritual and moral values. We remain open to scientific, academic, and educational exchanges and are ready to share our rich and in many respects unique experience in these areas with our foreign partners. Today, our country is actively participating in shaping a new, fair multipolar world order based on respect for the distinct cultures, traditions, and ways of life of different peoples, as well as on the firm rejection of any form of neocolonialism, racism, or Russophobia, and on the inadmissibility of imposing one’s own models of development on sovereign states.
I am confident that during this forum, which brings together prominent scholars, educators, diplomats, public and religious figures, and journalists from many countries, you will have the opportunity to discuss a wide range of important and relevant issues. Naturally, in this year marking the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory, special attention will be devoted to preserving the historical truth about our people’s decisive contribution to the defeat of Nazism.”