President: Today Azerbaijan is in the vanguard in ICT sector in CIS

Baku, April 28 (AzerTAc). “Our success in the information-communications sector is obvious. Great achievements were gained in this field in a short period of time. Today Azerbaijan is in the vanguard in ICT sector in CIS. But our duty does not end here. We want Azerbaijan to be in the vanguard in development of ICT worldwide,” President Ilham Aliyev said at the annual general assembly of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Head of State noted “state support and financial assistance are being given and in some cases, when negotiations with international financial organizations on the allocation of loans yield no result, the Azerbaijani state organizes its own financial possibilities. Now our possibilities are expanding, and it is necessary to pay special attention to the development of science and scientific progress, especially in the ICT sector, because the development of ICT pursues several goals. First of all, it will contribute to the development of Azerbaijan`s intellectual potential and support the policy of modernization in the country. On the other hand, there are great economic possibilities in this sphere. The revenues of the ICT sector in the future will have a great effect on the development of the Azerbaijani economy. Therefore, I believe that the academy should take more serious steps in this sphere.”