Medvedev urges stronger high-tech cooperation with Kazakhstan.

11/9 Tass 291

ORENBURG, September 11 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and Kazakhstan should step
up cooperation in high technologies, President Dmitry Medvedev told the
interregional cooperation forum in Orenburg on Friday.

"We agreed to give a fresh impetus to our cooperation in high
technologies. I fully support what had been said in relation to
cooperation in energy saving, IT, nano- and biotechnologies. Our working
groups need to maintain contacts on these issues," he said.
The president stressed that appropriate decisions were taken within
the Eurasian Economic Community and they also should be translated into
reality.
"If our partners on EurAsEC still show no such intention, we can
create a centre for high technologies and others can join in accordance
with established procedures. The fact that this theme positions itself at
the forefront is absolutely evident, otherwise we will not implement
decisions on modernizing our economies, which is necessary for us," he
said.
Medvedev stressed that the crisis proved that neither Russia nor
Kazakhstan could develop by means of the raw material based economies.
"This is an important part of our export potential, but this is not
all, we should create another economic structure," he said.
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