His Excellency, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naeem Abd Yaser Al-Aboudi announced the return of the Union of Arab Scientific Research Councils to its headquarters in the capital, Baghdad.

Dr. Al-Aboudi confirmed that the work of the forty-fifth session of the Council of the Union of Arab Scientific Research Councils, currently held in the Arab Republic of Egypt, resulted in a historic decision to return, indicating that the efforts of the Ministry, which were crowned with success in this direction, were based on the guidance of the Prime Minister, Mr. Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani.

His Excellency expressed his deep thanks to the Union of Arab Scientific Research Councils, its General Secretariat, and the member states that gave Iraq the confidence it deserves and the responsibility it deserves.

Dr. Al-Aboudi stressed on the continuation of joint work and providing the positive climates necessary to embrace the activities and work of the Union of Arab Scientific Research Councils in its ancient headquarters in the center of Baghdad and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and its university institutions’s keenness on cooperating in the field of scientific research, activating contexts of integration and strengthening the academic partnership environment.