Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend S.Babayeva / Azerbaijan's oil industry contributes to the development of the non-oil sector of the country, Jores Alferov, the Nobel Prize laureate, Vice-President of St Petersburg Academy of Sciences and famous scientist said in Baku on 26 September.
"The state policy in assisting the non-oil sector through the oil sector has been exactly defined in Azerbaijan," Alferov stressed.
Alferov is participating in the first international conference entitled 'The First International Conference on Material and Information Sciences in High Technologies' in Baku, which will conclude on 29 September.
In his speech Alferov stressed the importance of the conference held in Baku.
The conference is organized by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies jointly with the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan with assistance from the Japanese Physics Society.
Key speakers at the conference are scientists from Japan, Azerbaijan, Germany and Saudi Arabia delivering reports in English.