Belarus Permanent Representative to the UN Denis Zdorov said that Belarus will hold international summit on information-communication technologies “Uniting CIS space” on 26-27 October 2009.

He said the heads of the CIS states, representatives of leading international organizations, banks and companies, specializing in ICT, were invited to the summit.

Zdorov stated that . The United Nations system had a very important role to play in narrowing the technological gap and ensuring that information and communications technology instead became a factor for economic development.

The successful, broad application of information and communications technology depended on highly-developed infrastructure, and international cooperation was a key in this regard, he said. Belarus envoy supported a project on creation of Trans-Eurasian information super highway, which would give important impulse for cooperation in ICT.