OFFICIAL NEWS
PARTICIPANTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON NATIONAL STRATEGIES AND ELECTRONIC MANAGEMENT OF THE INFORMATION-COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
I welcome all of you in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, wish each of you health, happiness and successes. I express my hope that this Forum being conducted on the eve of the December current year World Summit will be a new step on the way of discussing political, social, humanitarian and technological aspects of establishment of the information society.
Marching on the path of dynamic development, state of Azerbaijan supports the idea of establishing a global information society and considers its realization as one of its political priorities. National strategy on the information-communication technologies approved by Executive Order of the President of Azerbaijan Republic reflects its policy and serves all-faceted development of our country, democratic society building, application of electronic management and Azerbaijan’s integration to the world community. Last years, the information-communication technologies have been successfully applied in numerous fields in the Azerbaijan Republic and this process is constantly expanding.
I accept conduction of the Forum in Baku as recognition on the international level of the achievements in the field of application of the information-communication technologies and suggest that the Forum participants will have opportunity to worthily estimate the development level of this field in our country.
The state of Azerbaijan with the transition economy understands well that establishment of electronic management is a strong mean to, effectively using intellectual potential of the country, ensure all-faceted development, combat against corruption, abolishment of poverty and unemployment, establishment of openness and transparency in society, in the whole, democratization of public life. Therefore, the government of Azerbaijan states its readiness for any form of cooperation in establishment of the information society. I am convinced that the Baku Forum will be a significant step in determination of the concrete forms of this cooperation.
I wish success to the work of your Forum, to each of you, in your activity aimed at all-round development of your countries.
Ilham Aliyev,
President of Azerbaijan Republic
Baku, 5 November 2003