Ukraine laying high hopes on science – Poroshenko

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said this, welcoming the participants of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine session.

"Having faced new challenges, Ukraine is laying high hopes for the science, including in the field of military and defense technologies. That is why the implementation of the innovative potential of our state is given a significant role in the Ukraine-2020 sustainable development strategy," he stressed.

Poroshenko noted that his meetings with the leading domestic scientists had shown that the systemic interaction among the government agencies, the scientific community, the industrial and business structures was the key to effective addressing the most important issues of the economic and social development of Ukraine, strengthening its defense capacity and national security.

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