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Azerbaijan suggests discussing East-West Information Highway Project at UN General Assembly

13 February 2009 16:15 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Aynur Veliyeva â€“ APA-Economics. The Government of Azerbaijan will try to get the East-West High-Speed Information Highway Project discussed at the Un General Assembly in September.
Azerbaijanâ€™s Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies said the feasibility study of the project will be performed this year.
The project envisions digitally connecting Western Europe to the Pacific through an information superhighway.
In late 2008, Azerbaijan hosted a ministerial conference entitled â€œTransnational Eurasian High-Speed Information Superhighwayâ€ on the sidelines of the 14th Azerbaijan International Telecommunications and Information Technologies Exhibition (BakuTel-2008) in Baku and the conference concluded with a declaration.
The Transnational Eurasian High-Speed Information Superhighway Project was worked out by Booz & Co global consulting firm.
The participating countries agreed to set up a workgroup for preparing proposals on the project.