Secretary-General of Iran’s National Commission for UNESCO Attends Meeting Between Iran’s Minister of Science and Cuba’s Minister of Higher Education; Emphasis on Expanding Scientific Cooperation Between the Two Countries
| The Secretary-General of Iran’s National Commission for UNESCO attended a meeting between Dr. Hossein Simaei, Minister of Science, Research and Technology and Chairperson of Iran’s National Commission for UNESCO, and Walter Baluja García, Minister of Higher Education of the Republic of Cuba, who had travelled to Tehran to attend the funeral ceremony of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution. During the meeting, the Cuban Minister of Higher Education offered condolences on the martyrdom of the Supreme Leader and commended the Islamic Republic of Iran’s victory in the face of the recent aggression. Both sides emphasized the importance of expanding scientific, academic, and research cooperation between Iran and Cuba. |
Walter Baluja García, Minister of Higher Education of the Republic of Cuba, who travelled to Tehran to attend the funeral ceremony of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, offered condolences on the martyrdom of the Leader during the meeting and commended the Islamic Republic of Iran’s victory in the face of the recent US-Israeli aggression.
Praising Iran’s scientific and technological advances despite sanctions, he emphasized the importance of expanding academic and research cooperation between the two countries and extended an invitation to Dr. Hossein Simaei, Minister of Science, Research and Technology, to visit Cuba.
At the meeting, which was attended by Dr. Hassan Fartousi, Secretary-General of Iran’s National Commission for UNESCO, Dr. Hossein Simaei, Minister of Science, Research and Technology, welcomed the Cuban Minister, expressing appreciation for his remarks and his visit to pay tribute to the martyred Leader. Referring to the circumstances facing Iran and Cuba amid external pressures and sanctions, he stated that the two countries had turned shared threats into opportunities and could draw on each other’s capacities to advance scientific cooperation.
Highlighting the two countries’ common experience in confronting external pressures and sanctions, the Minister of Science, Research and Technology stressed the importance of leveraging their respective capacities to expand scientific cooperation. The meeting concluded with an emphasis on strengthening academic and research ties between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Cuba.
