A Cooperation Contract Signed between Armenian and Belarusian National Academies of Sciences
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YEREVAN, MAY 17, ARMENPRESS: A cooperation contract was signed today between the Armenian and Belarusian National Academies of Sciences. The document was signed by Chairman of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences Radik Martirosyan and Michael Myasnikovitch, chairman of the Belarusian NAS.
R. Martirosyan noted that the cooperation between the two countries has a tradition of many years; the cooperation between the two academies has started still in the 1980s, when the Armenian scientific delegation signed a contract with the Belarusian scientific center in Minsk. “Though that cooperation was frozen later, but separate scientific-research centers continue to implement joint projects. Currently the cooperation requires a new status and approaches,” he said.
The Belarusian party is more interested in the Armenian scientific activity in the spheres of archeology, atomic energy and materialism, and the Armenian scientific society will have an opportunity of getting acquainted with Belarusian information technologies, astronomic researches.
The chairman of the National Academy of Sciences said that Armenia is greatly interested in the process of trading the results of the science, and organization of science.
“The Belarusian party has quite a great experience in this area in regard to involving new ideas in the economy and registering a result. One of our primary goals is to get acquainted with that process, especially that we face certain difficulties in that sphere,” he added.
M. Myasnikovitch, chairman of the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences, underscored that they have many achievements in the spheres of information, biotechnologies and astronomic researches. “The Belarusian NAS has a high reputation in the European scientific environment, and we have managed to register such results thanks to the direct attention of the head of our country. Our academy, too, has experiences crisis in the 1990s, but afterward we registered achievements in the sphere thanks to that support,” he said.
M. Myasnikovitch thoroughly presented the structure of their academy, the quantity and general budget of the scientific employees. It was noted that the scientific center which is comprised of 7 departments has 3 scientific-research centers, but over 10 scientific-research centers are operating in the country. A number of the projects of the Belarusian Academy are implemented by the NATO, US Fund for Civil Researches and a number of other structures. He expressed hope that the cooperation with Armenia will lay a platform for implementation of joint projects.
After the signing ceremony, the chairmen of the two academies gave medals and souvenirs to each other.