Minister of the EEC: Expanding partnerships, accumulating and combining competencies - pledge of mutually beneficial cooperation between the OSCE and EAEU countries

ArmInfo.Joint digital projects  in such areas as industrial cooperation, transport corridors, digital  traceability of products, goods, goods, as well as in the field of  increasing the coherence of digital infrastructures and the  development of a space of trust will be the basis for cooperation  between the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe  (OSCE) and the Eurasian economic union (EAEU) in the field of high  technologies. This was stated by Karine Minasyan, member of the Board  (Minister) on Internal Markets, Informatization, Information and  Communication Technologies of EEC, during the preparatory meeting for  the 26th Economic and Environmental Forum "Promoting economic  progress and security in the OSCE region through innovation, human  capital development and proper state and corporate governance>  January 23 in Vienna (Austria).

Karine Minasyan noted that all EAEU countries are members of the OSCE  and actively develop state programs and strategies for the  development of the digital economy, they are synchronized with the  joint digital agenda of the EAEU. This provides great opportunities  for interaction between the two associations and, first of all, in  the development of the digital economy.

Representatives of the delegations and permanent missions of the EAEU  countries to the OSCE singled out those that are connected with the  reduction of cross-border digital barriers, increased interconnection  of infrastructures, and interoperability as the most promising  directions. Projects in such areas as digital transport corridors,  digital industrial cooperation, traceability of products, goods,  goods, and the creation of a common space of trust can be developed  through the creation of international consortia.

The basis of joint projects is mutual interest, equal partnership,  complementarity of competences, wide dialogue with stakeholders  (representatives of business, scientific institutions and other  competence centers). The activation of international digital  cooperation and cooperation in non-primary high-tech areas is one of  the priorities of the Union within the framework of the digital  agenda. When working with third countries, ECE plans to use the  integrated information system (platform) of the EAEU to build the  processes of interaction; actively include experts from the EAEU  states in the development of draft international standards to ensure  interoperability and cross-cutting, barrier-free economic relations;  to develop and implement mechanisms for reducing risks in the digital  environment, taking into account the interests of all countries,  including the countries of the Union.

Ecological and economic forum is held in 2018 for the 26th time. It  is preceded by preparatory meetings, which allow consolidating the  position on the priority issues of the forum agenda. In the year of  Italy's chairmanship of the OSCE in 2018, the digital transformation  of the economy is declared a priority topic for discussion at the  OSCE site. As a separate area, it is presented on this site for the  first time.