“KNOWLEDGE IS IMPORTANT FOR LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES”
Support A1+!President Serzh Sargsyan today received Cheick Sidi Diarra, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States. The Under-Secretary-General has arrived in Yerevan to participate in the global innovation conference on educational issues.
The president appreciated the assistance the UN structures provide to Armenia. Noting that ever since joining the UN Armenia has been actively participating in the organisation’s activity, Serzh Sargsyan said without the direct assistance of corresponding UN bodies it would be extremely difficult to work out and implement effective programmes in a number of spheres.
“Our objective is to create a stably developing society,” the leader of the country said, noting that the Government has declared information technologies as a priority direction. On the way of creation of an information society, the state especially encourages the activeness and involvement of youth.
Welcoming Armenia’s resoluteness to develop information technologies and telecommunication, the high UN official said it will allow investing the knowledge in the potential of the country’s development, which is especially important for landlocked countries like Armenia.
The parties agreed that the economy based on knowledge provides an opportunity to the country to be much more competitive.
The interlocutors spoke about the alternative routes of communication and emphasised their necessity.
According to Sargsyan, the growth of communication opportunities can considerably facilitate the development of information technologies.
