On the invitation of the President of the Scientific Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" Mikhail Kovalchuk, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of South Ossetia to Russia Znaur Gassiev, took part in the scientific forum "Experience of multilateral research in the Eurasian dimension."
According to the press service of the Embassy of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation, the forum took place on the sidelines of the meeting of the Council of the International Association of Academies of Sciences.
“As part of the scientific forum organized by the Russian Center for Scientific Information, the experience and prospects for cooperation between scientists from friendly countries in Eurasia were discussed. The roles of scientific diplomacy and multilateral scientific cooperation in solving the issues of integration in the Eurasian dimension are considered. The results of activities within the framework of the program of the Eurasian Association for the Support of Scientific Research were summed up and issues of further development of joint initiatives were discussed,” the press service said.
It has been noted that Znaur Gassiev, on behalf of the people and government of South Ossetia, congratulated the organizers and participants of the scientific meeting on the beginning of the meeting and expressed gratitude for the invitation.
“In his welcoming speech, he, in particular, said that participation in this high meeting with some of the best representatives of domestic and foreign scientific thought was a great honor for the Republic,” the agency’s interlocutor has emphasized.
According to Znaur Gassiev, "one of the priority tasks of South Ossetia is comprehensive support for the progressive development of science, the implementation of promising fundamental and applied scientific research, as well as integration into the international academic space."
“The organizational and intellectual center of applied research and innovation activity in the Republic is the Scientific Research Institute and one of the largest universities in the Caucasus, South Ossetian State University, which constitute a scientific and educational space that provides high quality education and research.
With the assistance of the Russian Federation, conditions are being created to increase the volume of research grants, support for young scientists.
South Ossetia seeks to form, develop ways and mechanisms for the practical implementation of joint programs and projects on a multilateral basis in the educational and scientific space, considering this as a condition for expanding and deepening all forms of relations between various states, and first of all, with Russia, considering itself a part of the Russian peace," the Ambassador said.
In conclusion, Znaur Gassiev congratulated Gennady Krasnikov on his election as President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, wishing him successful activities, scientific achievements and discoveries in his honorary and responsible post, and also wished all the organizers and participants fruitful work, creative inspiration and great success.
Representatives of the scientific communities of the countries represented in the International Association of the Academy of Sciences, the founding countries of the Eurasian Association for the Support of Scientific Research and a number of other friendly countries were invited to participate in the forum.
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