TEHRAN – Minister of Science, Research and Technology, Hossein Simaei-Sarraf, has mentioned that attacking universities is a crossing of red traces, highlighting that many universities and academic facilities within the nation had been focused by the United States and Israel through the latest battle.
When a college is focused, in reality, one of essentially the most genuine facilities of tradition and civilization is attacked, and the hurt is directed on the whole scientific group of the world, msrt.ir quoted Simaei-Sarraf as saying.
The official made the remarks whereas addressing the tenth assembly of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Education Ministers, which occurred in Minsk, Belarus, on June 16. A delegation led by the science minister attended the assembly.
Elaborating on the US-Israeli navy assaults on Iran, destruction, and assassinations of Iranian universities and scientists previously 12 months, he emphasised that universities ought to be secure havens for thought, dialogue, and hope, moderately than victims of conflicts.
The official raised a query, asking members, “Will the international community allow the most authentic centers of civilization to fall victim to violence?”, and urged the worldwide scientific group and worldwide organizations to undertake a clearer, extra accountable, and decisive stance in defending the safety of universities, scientists, and scientific facilities.
Silence within the face of these aggressions will result in fixed violence towards science and civilization, he added.
Referring to transboundary challenges resembling local weather change, water and vitality disaster, meals safety, and developments in synthetic intelligence (AI), he confused that cohesive scientific cooperation is essential for the long run of mankind.
The official went on to spotlight the distinctive, civilizational and educational capacities of the SCO member states in AI, primary sciences, superior supplies, and public well being, and emphasised the necessity to rework these various benefits into a community of cooperation, noting the universities’ success sooner or later won’t solely be measured by the manufacturing of pure data, however their impacts on the standard of individuals’s lives.
The official went on to suggest that SCO change into a profitable mannequin of problem-based convergence by which data is a bridge between nations and a issue for sustainable improvement, prosperity, and constructing a safer and extra humane future.
Hosting greater than 30 representatives of SCO member states, together with ministers of schooling and their deputies, college rectors, and officers from related companies, the tenth assembly aimed to boost multilateral scientific and technological cooperation amongst SCO member states.
Belarusian Education Minister, Andrey Ivanets, held a assembly with Simaei-Sarraf. The official hoped the assembly would lay the bottom for the enlargement of scientific and technological cooperation between the 2 nations.
The Iranian minister, for his half, highlighted the strategic standing of the SCO and referred to as for the enhancement of collaborations amongst member states within the know-how sector to satisfy the shared wants of every nation.
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