In his speech at the celebration of May 24, the Day of the Slavic Script and Bulgarian Culture, Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov appealed to the government to accept education as a priority, not as a burden for the national budget.

Parvanov participated at the parade and the ceremony at the monument of the authors of the first Slavic alphabet St. Cyril and St. Methodius before the National Library in downtown Sofia.

According to the President, the government should not be addressing education issues only when the teachers go out on strike, and suggested that the salaries and social status of the persons employed in the education sphere should be improved.

The President asked the Bulgarian professors, culture activists, and politicians to work together in order to come up with new ideas and solutions for the development of Bulgarian education, science, and culture.

In his words, Bulgaria needed to look for new ways of preserving its historical heritage. Parvanov also urged for the construction of a new building for the National History Museum, and for legislative changes for the improvement of the level of education.

The President declared himself for the preservation of the national requirements for the learning of the Bulgarian literary language at school in the context of a failed bill, which had suggested their abolition.

Earlier during the ceremony, the Sofia Mayor Boyko Borisov pointed out that if all Bulgarian institutions worked together in harmony the way they celebrated May 24, the Bulgarian people would indeed be "revived" as the popular Hymn of St. Cyril and St. Methodius states.

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