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Israeli statesman touts IT as key to peace
February 4, 1999
Web posted at: 7:17 p.m. EST (0017 GMT)
by Jana Sanchez
(IDG) -- Former Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Shimon Peres today praised information technology as being able to promote peace and prosperity worldwide. Peres made the remarks to a crowd of mainly French IT industry workers at the Information and High Technology Forum, a conference being held in Paris.
Peres said Israel must help the Palestinian people build a new economy based on high technology. If Palestine had a prosperous economy based on IT, then peace in the region would have a greater chance to flourish, he said.
"The main task of the information age is to bring to us the measure of how the world has changed considerably, and there is no turning back," said Peres, as he praised the role of technology in reducing wars and bloodshed.
Israel, which has developed a robust high-tech industry over the past decade, has more companies on the Nasdaq stock market in the U.S. than all countries other than the U.S. and Canada.