A COOPERATION CONTRACT SIGNED BETWEEN ARMENIAN AND BELARUSIAN NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES

ARMENPRESS
MAY 17, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, MAY 17, ARMENPRESS: A cooperation contract was signed today
between the Armenian and Belarusian National Academies of Sciences.

The document was signed by Chairman of the Armenian National Academy
of Sciences Radik Martirosyan and Michael Myasnikovitch, chairman of
the Belarusian NAS.

R. Martirosyan noted that the cooperation between the two countries
has a tradition of many years; the cooperation between the two
academies has started still in the 1980s, when the Armenian scientific
delegation signed a contract with the Belarusian scientific center
in Minsk. "Though that cooperation was frozen later, but separate
scientific-research centers continue to implement joint projects.

Currently the cooperation requires a new status and approaches,"
he said.

The Belarusian party is more interested in the Armenian scientific
activity in the spheres of archeology, atomic energy and materialism,
and the Armenian scientific society will have an opportunity
of getting acquainted with Belarusian information technologies,
astronomic researches.

The chairman of the National Academy of Sciences said that Armenia
is greatly interested in the process of trading the results of the
science, and organization of science.

"The Belarusian party has quite a great experience in this area in
regard to involving new ideas in the economy and registering a result.

One of our primary goals is to get acquainted with that process,
especially that we face certain difficulties in that sphere," he added.

M. Myasnikovitch, chairman of the Belarusian National Academy of
Sciences, underscored that they have many achievements in the spheres
of information, biotechnologies and astronomic researches. "The
Belarusian NAS has a high reputation in the European scientific
environment, and we have managed to register such results thanks to
the direct attention of the head of our country. Our academy, too,
has experiences crisis in the 1990s, but afterward we registered
achievements in the sphere thanks to that support," he said.

M. Myasnikovitch thoroughly presented the structure of their academy,
the quantity and general budget of the scientific employees. It was
noted that the scientific center which is comprised of 7 departments
has 3 scientific-research centers, but over 10 scientific-research
centers are operating in the country. A number of the projects of
the Belarusian Academy are implemented by the NATO, US Fund for Civil
Researches and a number of other structures. He expressed hope that
the cooperation with Armenia will lay a platform for implementation
of joint projects.

After the signing ceremony, the chairmen of the two academies gave
medals and souvenirs to each other.