Islamabad, 12 December 2022 (GNP): The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Secretary-General, Hissein Brahim Taha, and a group of 10 people paid COMSTECH a visit on Monday.
Senior representatives from the Foreign Ministry accompanied the OIC mission. The Coordinator-General of COMSTECH, Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary, and his staff extended a warm welcome to the Secretary-General and his group.
In his presentation to the Secretary-General, Prof. Choudhary covered the background of COMSTECH, its vision and mission, previous accomplishments, current activities, and future prospects.
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He also led the delegation on a tour of the COMSTECH facilities to get them acquainted. He gave them an overview of the state-of-the-art training tools available there to assist OIC states in increasing their capabilities.
COMSTECH tweeted on their official account, “Secretary General H. E. Mr. Hissein Brahim Taha is being welcomed by the Coordinator-General COMSTECH, Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary along with his team at COMSTECH Secretariat today. CG COMSTCH gave a detailed presentation to the SG on COMSTECH activities… The SC OIC appreciated COMSTECH’s role in OIC member states.”
During the presentation of the COMSTECH report by the Coordinator-General, the OIC Secretary-General discussed several COMSTECH programmes and their impacts on the expansion of science and technology collaboration among OIC-member states.
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Additionally, he offered perceptive advice and ideas that would be used in COMSTECH’s future goals. The present-day COMSTECH programmes were appreciated by Hissein Brahim Taha.
These include the COMSTECH-IFS Research Grants Program, the COMSTECH-ICGEB Cooperation Program, the Fellowships Program, the Palestine, Yemen, and Africa Health Programs, and the Consortium of Excellence.
He also praised the Research Fellowships for OIC LDCs Program, the COMSTECH-TWAS Science in Exile Program, as well as webinars, workshops, conferences, and exhibits for their contributions to capacity building.