President
Victor Yushchenko met today with Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft
Corporation Steven A. Ballmer.
The parties
discussed activity of Microsoft in Ukraine, the recently signed memorandum
between the Government of Ukraine and the corporation on cooperation in education
and fighting child labor exploitation, etc.
President
Yushchenko noted powerful potential of Ukraine in IT industry and said
that Ukrainian side is interested in developing cooperation with Microsoft. According
to him one of promising projects would be to establish a software development
centre in Ukraine
with support from Microsoft.
Steven
Ballmer from his part thanked Ukraine
and President Yushchenko personally for rendering support to Microsoft and
promotion of intellectual property rights protection. He also informed that the
corporation plans to open an innovational centre at Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University
and is interested in contributing to Children’s Hospital of the Future.
