2020-02-21
"Most important words of all are self-governance and student community here today. Self-governance is a strong future of our country" stated Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia in his speech delivered at the Youth Forum of Local Self-Governance today.
Head of Government of Georgia underlined that decision-making is gradually and more effectively shifting to the self-governance level. According to the Prime Minister of Georgia, students are people who should take decisions locally in the near future.
"Of course, it will require high competence, strong and quality education. That is why the Government of Georgia launched a systemic reform of the education sector, which is currently being implemented. Degree education is one of the most significant parts of this reform. You might have noticed that it started with general schooling and is now progressing in the segment of higher education. It has great importance. It is directly targeted at making schools strong, followed with a strong higher education, strong science and research. This is a sign of systemic approach in the overall education reform" noted the Prime Minister of Georgia.
Head of Government of Georgia spoke about the significance of the event and focused on the role of students, who should start to care for the future of our country.
"As for the event today, I believe it utterly important. It is a great honor for me to be here and have an opportunity of addressing you for a very simple reason. This country is yours of course! It is everyone's, but primarily yours! You are the people, who should start to care for the future of our country and its future. It is very important. We should all agree that Georgia is everyone's, but it is more yours for a single reason of your responsibility being highest. The fact that you are here today and made a step to belong to the student community and self-governance means that you are an active youth. It means that you have conceptualized your responsibility towards state and homeland, having no expectation or request of external help. No, you are proactive in your actions. And I want to thank you for this" added the Head of Government of Georgia.
According to the Prime Minister of Georgia, government will do its best to make the youth and student community more successful.
"All the steps: reform in the education system, facilitation of youth engagement in business through various forms, support of scientific achievements among the youth are done to empower the Georgian youth in the global competition, so that they succeed internationally. Otherwise, we will find it hard to govern this country. We all understand it well that irrespective of everything done by the Government of Georgia in recent years and nowadays, we still live in an economically fragile country. We still need to do a lot and bulk of it will rest on your shoulders. I wish you success. I am confident that forum today will be effective and will enable you to make yet another step forward to advancing your professionalism and competences" noted the Prime Minister of Georgia.
Youth Forum of Local Self-Governance is aimed at facilitating the priority setting by youth policy document and at improving the cooperation between the municipality officials through regular meetings of young members of assemblies within municipalities in a common format. Event was attended by members of local assemblies from 64 municipalities aged between 21 and 29 as delegates of the forum.
Prime Minister's Press Office