President Armen Sarkissian visited today the famous German DESY research center located in Zeuthen. The Center is conducting fundamental studies in the area of energy resource and accelerator physics.
DESY is cooperating with the A. Alikhanian national research laboratory of the Yerevan Institute of Physics and with the CANDLE synchrophasotron research institute in Yerevan.
President of the Board of Directors of DESY, professor Helmut Dosch during the tour presented to Armen Sarkissian areas of the Center’s activities. The President familiarized also with the capacities of the PITZ synchrophasotron located in the Center. Later, he had a meeting with the Scientific Council of the Center.
Noting that Armenia too has serious traditions in fundamental sciences, particularly, in physics, President Sarkissian underscored that Armenia possesses a great potential to expand the existing cooperation with scientific and research institutions.
“I was glad to see also Armenian scientists in DESY, their presence here testified to a real Armenian-German cooperation. I believe in the framework of your new projects, there are serious opportunities to deepen the cooperation.
Armenia has good specialists and ties; Armenia has proved that is able to produce high-quality products. Thus, I believe we need to continue to develop our cooperation,” President Armen Sarkissian underlined and added that he was ready to assist in deepening the existing cooperation.