YEREVAN, MARCH 3, NOYAN TAPAN. Receiving on March 3 Egypt-based ARTOC Group's delegation headed by the company chairman Shafik Gabr, the Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan stated that he has been informed and has a high opinion about the investment projects that ARTOC Group for Investment & Development plans to implement. Speaking about the prospects of promoting bilateral cooperation and implementing investment projects, he attached great importance to the development of a knowledge-based economy, in which the creation of technoparks is of special importance. The interlocutors underlined the necessity of founding technical business parks which should include all the necessary services in the IT sector and science. The RA Government Information and PR Department reports that the sides considered it important to implement projects on free economic zones and discussed the opportunities of building a broadband Internet network. According to T. Sargsyan, the Armenian government approved the concept of forming e-society, which involves the prospects of continuous development of e-governance. He expressed a hope that the envisaged joint projects will be implemented successfully and invited the guests to visit Armenia in October in order to attend the opening ceremony of the Tatev funicular ropeway - the longest one in the world.

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