Syria links information society building to peace establishment

"Establishing an information society in the Middle East without laying down the just and comprehensive peace on the basis of the international resolutions that returns rights to their legitimate owners, is extremely difficult matter," Syria's Communication and Technology Minister warned Thursday.

"Syria has taken several active steps to build a society of information on top of which is to put an ambitious national strategy for using technology of information and communication in development," Mohammad Bashir al-Munajjid said in front of Tunis society of information summit.

He called for allowing access to technology of communications and information to all the world countries and isolated peoples and to remove all hindrances facing that.

The minister underlined the "necessity of all peoples sharing to supervise the internet, particularly what is related to websites management, domains names and specifying them, in addition to permitting to enter them in a way that attains a just distribution of internet resources to bridge the digital gap between the developed states and developing countries."

Al-Munajjid stressed significance of the summit to take into consideration encouragement of cultural and language diversity of internet and ensuring mechanism for financing national and regional projects to contribute to building the society of information in the developing countries particularly in the states that suffer bad economic conditions.