DUSHANBE, November 27, 2009, Asia-Plus — The CIS states should combine efforts to ensure information security, including safety of keeping database in Internet, President Emomali Rahmon remarked at a high-level meeting “Let’s Unite CIS Area” in Minsk, Belarus on November 26, according to Belarusian news agency BELTA.
“Wideband access to Internet is developing intensively in the CIS states – it offers full spectrum of services – financial, banking, educational and others,” said President Rahmon, “However, exposure of Internet evokes concern.”
The CIS states ought to opportunely determine politically important resources of national segment in Internet, define possible risks and apply, Rahmon said, noting that the CIS states have all necessary technologies for that.
Tajik leader also pointed to the necessity of continuing work on harmonization of the CIS states’ laws to create favorable conditions for attraction of investments for development of information and communication technologies that will allow developing business in that field more successfully.
Presidents Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, senior representatives of a number of other CIS states, Georgia, UN United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development, World Bank and the European Investment Bank (EIB) as well as senior representatives of relevant ministries and top managers of 62 companies and organizations from 27 countries attended the event.
We will recall that the event co-organizers included the Regional Commonwealth in the field of Communications (RCC Board), CIS Executive Committee, UN United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development, World Bank and the European Investment Bank (EIB). The summit’s agenda mainly focused on averting disparity in ICT field in the region. The summit participants will discuss issues related to building information society, introducing new services, digital television technologies, info security.
A high-level meeting “Let’s Unite CIS Area” is part of ITU global initiative “Let’s Unite World” and aims to assist establishing partnership relations between public and private sectors in order to raise investments necessary to ensure implementation of international high-level meeting’s major tasks by 2015.
