By Minahil Makhdoom
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has urged the COMSATS’ member states to work collaboratively to deal with the menace of COVID-19 pandemic and help address the associated socio-economic challenges. He was speaking at the fourth Ministerial-level Consultative Committee Meeting of the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) held here as its head and attended by participants of 30 delegates from 19 countries.
The meeting was an august gathering of three ministers, a vice minister and other high-level government officials belonging to Iran, Jordan, Pakistan, Sudan, Yemen, Turkey, Bangladesh, Somalia, Zimbabwe, China, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, and Uganda.
Speaking on the occasion, the federal minister highlighted Pakistan, the host country of COMSATS Secretariat, as an ardent supporter of COMSATS’ mandate since inception. “Working in close proximity of the Secretariat, my ministry is a witness to the hard work and devotion with which the organization is striving towards its mission at the highest and the grass-root levels alike†, the minister remarked.
Chaudhry Fawad lauded COMSATS’ efforts for implementing the decision of the previous meeting and urged his counterparts in the 26 other member states to duly support COMSATS’ operations by all means, especially more regular Annual Membership Contributions. The participants deliberated on a nine-point agenda during the meeting virtually hosted from COMSATS Secretariat, Islamabad.
