News & Events in Belarus

MINSK, 18 April (BelTA) – During the TIBO 2017 official opening ceremony, Belarus First Deputy Prime Minister Vasily Matyushevsky read out a message of greetings from Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko to the visitors and participants of the 24th edition of the international forum on telecommunications, information and banking technologies TIBO 2017.

“The event has grown large-scale in recent years. Certainly, TIBO in Belarus enjoys a well-deserved reputation among companies and our colleagues in the EAEU. Traditionally, Belarus is open to dialogue,” Vasily Matyushevsky said after the official ceremony.

The First Deputy Prime Minister noted that the new economy has been talked about a lot recently, and the expo showcases the most promising areas of its development. “This economy will be shaping the future of the civilization. It is important for us that we are at the forefront of this process,” he said.

Belarus’ Minister of Communication and Informatization Sergei Popkov said that this year the expo has drawn more than 100 companies and organizations from 17 countries. “We did our best to bring the most advanced solutions in telecommunications and informatization to the expo. We are grateful to the world's leading companies for participating in TIBO 2017,” he said.

Held since 1994, TIBO is one of the biggest exhibition events in the CIS and the Baltic states. The forum gathers the leading Belarusian and foreign producers of telecommunications equipment, computers and software, security systems and devices, suppliers of ICT services. TIBO 2016 brought together more than 100 companies from 18 countries: Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Finland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Turkey, China, the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the United States.