Category: Economy

Photo copyright ActionPress/Virot Geneva, 15 June 2011 – ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré met with Mr Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation during a historic visit to UN Headquarters in Geneva, where they discussed global access to the benefits of information and communication technologies (ICT). Russia has long been a supporter of ITU and was one of its founding members nearly 150 years ago. Prime Minister Putin reaffirmed his support and that of the Russian Federation to ITU…

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The member States of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) are not readily associated with the need for development. When referring to this region, most people would tend to associate it with relative prosperity, economic advancement and social security. Such an attitude is quite natural as many countries of the region actually represent the richest and economically most powerful part of the world, including the United States and the European Union, or like the Russian Federation are…

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