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Dmitry Zhuk, Belarusian Telegraph Agency
Today, the countries of Asia and the Pacific show rapid growth.
There are a lot of interesting things there.
In many ways, our people and our business do not know about it.
Therefore, these sorts of event allow us to open a window into that part of the world.
And one more little fact, we do not know this,
but this region has up to two-thirds of all information flow.
These figures speak for themselves.
Partnerships between agencies to which these events strongly contribute,form that live thread,
the permanent binding element, which allows information to fuel our society.
Heads of agencies representing the Caucasus are here as well.
How would you rate the level of relations between the Belarusian and Caucasian media?
We have a great relationship with the media from this region.
We have a long-standing partnership agreement with Trend, which operates in the region, and with AzerTA.
We keep very intimate relationships with our Armenian colleagues,
with various information portals from Georgia.
These are absolutely normal, civilized and very progressive media.
And I would not single them out separately, they are part of the global news content .
How much demand is there in Belarus for information on the South Caucasus?
Of course there is demand. For two reasons.
First, the memory of the Soviet Union, the single community, is still strong and powerful.
And the Russian language contributes to this, as it consolidates the information space.
And secondly, we trade very actively with all these countries.
Here are the two main criteria on which this information is going.