Deputy Prime Minister: Armenia expresses its readiness to deepen  cooperation in high technology development programs within the CIS

ArmInfo. Armenia is ready to continue to take effective steps aimed at creating favorable conditions for expanding promising areas of mutually beneficial cooperation within the CIS member states. Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mher Grigoryan stated this at an online meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of  the Commonwealth of Independent States.

As Grigoryan noted, it is known that every economic turbulence on a  global scale is simultaneously an incentive for the development of  new approaches, innovations and capitalization of scientific  achievements.  And in this regard, Armenia attaches particular  importance to the cooperation of the CIS member states in innovation,  educational, informational and other spheres.

"Taking into account that digitalization, innovation and technology  development are among the priority areas in our country, the Armenian  side expresses its readiness to deepen cooperation within the  framework of high technology development programs. In this context,  Armenia attaches great importance to the adoption of the Interstate  Program for Innovative Cooperation of the CIS Member States for the  period up to 2030 and the signing of the Agreement on Information  Interaction of the CIS Member States in the Field of Digital  Development, "Grigoryan stressed.

According to him, the Armenian side also supports the adoption of the  documents proposed for the meeting, regulating and aimed at improving  the already existing mechanisms of interested interaction in various  fields, in particular, in the field of creation and development of a  joint air defense system, the use of atomic energy for peaceful  purposes. , ensuring transport security during international  transportation in the territories of the CIS states.

Grigoryan also touched upon the Plan of Priority Actions in the  Sphere of Humanitarian Cooperation for the next two years, which  Armenia sees as the next step in strengthening ties and expanding  contacts in the humanitarian sphere.

"We attach great importance to the adoption of the Action Plan for  the implementation of the first five-year stage of the Economic  Development Strategy, aimed at developing the economy and interstate  trade and economic cooperation, which also contains measures to  minimize the negative consequences of the pandemic for the economies  of the CIS countries," the Deputy Prime Minister said.

Accordingly, as Grigoryan emphasized, Armenia attaches particular  importance to cooperation in the field of health care, preservation,  restoration and improvement of the population's health, health  protection and sanitary and epidemiological well-being, development  and strengthening of interstate relations in the field of medicine.

In conclusion, Grigoryan expressed Armenia's readiness, together with  the countries of the Commonwealth, to synchronize efforts in the  fight against the pandemic and increase its effectiveness.