President of Belarus Approves Priority Guidelines of Sci-tech Activity for 2006-2010

July 7, 2005

The presidential decree approved priority guidelines of the sci-tech activity in Belarus for 2006-2010.

According to the document the priority guidelines include alternative and energy-effective technologies for competitive production, new materials and energy resources, medicine and pharmacy, information and telecommunications technologies, technologies on production, processing and storage of agricultural products, industrial biotechnologies, ecology and rational nature management.

According to the information provided in the presidential press service, the program is based on the concept of the socio-economic development program of the Republic of Belarus for 2006-2010 and other documents. Innovation practice of the developed countries with the priority given to the EU and Russia was also taken into consideration.

Belarusian Telegraph Agency