YEREVAN, OCTOBER 23, NOYAN TAPAN. A memorandum on the Armenian-Belarusian cooperation in the high and information technologies sectors was signed on October 23 during the visit of the delegation headed by the Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorski to Armenia. Aram Vardanian, Director of the company Viasphere Technopark, said during a talk with reporters that formerly Armenia cooperated with several Russian high-tech and IT companies and with Intergral (Minsk). In his words, there are many directions in the sector that can be developed jointly, by using the existing potential. Particularly, the matter concerns the organization of a big joint production with the use of singe-crystal silicon technologies, especially as this product is in great demand on the international market. Valeri Tsepkalo, Director of Belarus' High Technologies Park, noted the existence of a peculiar tax regime for creation of technoparks in Belarus. Besides, there are many young specialists in the country: 26 thousand students specialize in this field annually. By the way, there is one technopark in Belarus, whereas in Armenia their number makes about 20.

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