Alexander Yesayan, board member of World Information Technology and Service Alliance (WITSA), President of Union of Advanced Technology Enterprises (UATE) and WCIT 2019 IT international congress, has personally reconfirmed the previously extended participation invite during the meeting with Iran’s Minister of Communications and Technology, Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi.

Yesayan is in Iran within the scope of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s official visit to this country. As announced earlier, the World Congress on Information Technologies will be held in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan, from October 6 to 9. The Iranian government representative thanked for the invitation, expressing his interest in participating in the event.

Within the scope of the visit, the parties from Armenia, Iran, and Qatar signed a memorandum of understanding on regional cooperation. According to the document, the largest telecommunication companies of the three countries will cooperate to create an internet transit channel for the region. The document was signed by UCOM co-founder Alexander Yesayan, Iranian Telecommunication Company CEO Majid Sadri, and the president of the largest cable network provider of the Gulf States, GULF Bridge International, Abdulla Al-Rwaili.

“This program will create a transit link for Internet provision to connect the Gulf and Asian countries to Europe,” Ucom co-founder Alexander Yesayan stated. “By joining such an ambitious project, Armenia once again underlines its position as a regional IT leader. The new channel will become an alternative to the current maritime route, will sidestep Azerbaijan and Turkey and pass through Armenia. By the way, Turkey and Azerbaijan were in intense competition to win the project. This is not simply a matter of business, but it has a strong strategic impact on the telecommunication security.”