ROBERT KOCHARYAN: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN ARMENIA’S GDP STRUCTURE MAKE UP 2%

ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Nov 17 2006

The information technologies in Armenia’s GDP structure make up 2%
already, RA President Robert Kocharyan said in his yesterday’s speech
in the Bertelsmann Fund in Berlin.

As the Presidential press-service told ArmInfo, R. Kocharyan has
called armenia’s achievements in IT sphere a competitive advantage,
on which the reforms are based and which an evidence of a high level
of the population’ s education. "Meanwhile, we fully recognize that
it would be impossible to use this advantage without serious changes
in our educational sector and in science. Therefore, Armenia takes an
active part in the Bolonian process, bringing its educational system
to conformity with the European standards", the President noted. He
underlines that Armenia is developing now a strategy of large-scale
reforms in the area of fundamental and applied science.