Seminar on New Technologies for Senior Officials

June 10, 2004

A seminar for top–level officials of the central and local government bodies started its work on June 10, 2004 in Vitebsk under the guidance of President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. Innovation policy in our country, first of all, elaborating, developing, launching full-scale manufacture of products based on newest technologies, and, not of lesser importance, commercializing them are the subjects of discussion at the seminar.

Seminars for senior officials held since 1996 make it possible for the heads of central and local authorities to obtain a deeper knowledge of the priority areas of the state policy, to exchange views on ways of its implementation. Over recent years, it has become common practice that the seminar sessions are held alternatingly in each of the country’s regions thus enabling their participants to make an in-depth study of the problems at the level of every region.

According to Alexander Lukashenko, it is natural that the issues of the innovation policy should be considered in the year of acceleration and quality because two-digit GDP growth in Belarus must be achieved largely by manufacturing new, high-quality, and competitive products. The President stressed that Belarus must be stronger and firmly established in joining globalization processes so as to be equal, if not to be setting rules.