Azerbaijan and Egypt intend to expand ties in the field of ICT.
Yesterday the Minister of Communications and Information Technologies Ali Abbasov meeting with the Egyptian Ambassador completing his diplomatic mission in Azerbaijan, Sabir Abdulgadir Mansur discussed a number of issues.
In the autumn there will be presentations of the Kulturama project, the exhibition BakuTel (6-9 November), arrival in Baku of the Director of Iskenderiye Library, Ismail Seragyaldi and several issues will be solved in the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Ministries of the two countries in 2005.
In Egypt, the new Minister of Communications is ready to participate in an international forum to discuss issues of Internet Governance (IGF-Internet Governance Forum) - IGF-2012, to be held in Baku on the initiative of the UN.
Minister Ali Abbasov said that the forum will be attended by about three thousand experts and officials from around the world. - 17D-
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