Syria takes part in a round table debate on Euro-Asian partnership

The International Union of Non-Governmental Organizations (the Eurasian People’s Assembly) and the University of Belgorod State Technological University of Russia (BSTU) held a round table debate in Moscow on the Euro-Asian partnership with the participation of Syria.

The event was held under the title “Euro-Asian partnership..New Protocols for Cooperation in the Countries of the Mediterranean and North Africa”.

Syria’s Ambassador to Russia Riad Haddad stressed that discussions on the Euro-Asian partnership are important to enhance preparations for establishing a new world the features of which are currently being drawn as a result of the brave decision made by the Russian Federation to stop NATO expansion and put an end to western hegemony through a military operation in Ukraine that aims at protecting the people in Donbass and uprooting Nazism from Ukraine and the world.

He pointed out that peoples of the countries of the Middle East see no better alternative than partnership with Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union to establish balanced relations based on respecting others, particularly after the West has presented itself as an example in destroying countries and looting their resources.

 On his part, Secretary General of the Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly Andrei Belyaninov said that this round table meeting aims at discussing urgent issues like food security as well as academic, technical, cultural and humanitarian cooperation which have special importance in the light of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine.

The mission of experts today is to think of the measures that should be take and the rules that should be set to draw up the features of the future so that cooperation between the Middle East  and North African countries on the one hand and the countries of the Eurasian Union on the other, becomes an example to follow, Belyaninov added.

 Rector of the University of Belgorod State Technological University Sergey Glagoliev, on his part, asserted the importance of consolidating academic cooperation with Arab universities in general and with Syrian universities in particular.

Hamda Mustafa