CIS REPRESENTATIVES DISCUSS OUTLOOKS OF INNOVATIVE COOPERATION IN YEREVAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
May 25, 2010 – 16:18 AMT 11:18 GMT

Yerevan hosted a meeting of the working group on developing a project
of the Interstate Target Program on Innovative Cooperation among the
CIS member states. The meeting brought together representatives of
Armenia, Russia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan,
Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova.

“Priorities of cooperation among the CIS countries in the field of
innovations have been numerously discussed by the states’ heads. First
of all, they include those fields, which may have a breakthrough effect
due to unification of the entire potential of the CIS: airplane and
ship construction, energy, etc,” Deputy Head of the Federal Agency
for the CIS Affairs Igor Morozov told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

In his turn, Head of the Department of High and Information
Technologies of the Armenian Ministry of Economy Vache Kirakosyan
said that the rehabilitation of former ties and establishment of new
ones will play an important role in Armenia’s development. “This is
a regular discussion, during which we will summarize the results of
previous meetings and will plan our further steps,” he said.

In December 2010, the results of the working group’s operation will be
submitted to presidents of the CIS countries. Meanwhile, the projects
are scheduled to be implemented from January 2011 to 2020.

“The global economic crisis made us understand that there are not
bounds for modern economy,” said Morozov. He added that there is a
framework program in the EU, which is based on innovative cooperation
among the EU countries.

“We want to establish an analogue of this program for the CIS
countries, as well as to create technological corridors between
these programs to expand the Eurasian innovative space, so that we
present interest for each other and integrate into the world system
of economy,” said Morozov.

According to Morozov, Armenia has intellectual and industrial
potential, which can be used for the CIS interest that, in its turn,
will create new jobs and will secure budgetary receipts for Armenia.

From: A. Papazian