A memorandum on mutual understanding is signed between the Kyrgyz Government and World Post Union

Yesterday a memorandum on mutual understanding between the Kyrgyz Government and the World Post Union is signed in Bishkek. Director general of the International Bureau of the World Post Union Thomas Edward Levy and deputy Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, Minister of Transport and Communications Kubanychbek Jumaliev are signed the memorandum. The memorandum considers the cooperation of the Kyrgyz Government and World Post Union in the sphere of modernization, development of post communications of Kyrgyzstan. In particular, the WPU undertakes to render assistance in issues of preparing projects and searching foreign investments for their implementation and for development of post links of Kyrgyzstan. According to K. Jumaliev, the required sum of investments for modernization of the post makes about 3 million US Dollars.

According to the conception of development of the post links of Kyrgyzstan, one of the priority direction for development of the post is to computerize enterprises, in particular to introduce e-mails, to create information and communication centres available to Internet technologies and other computer services. And these works has been already begun.