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10 апреля 2019 года

Saudi Arabia Delegation Visited Institute of Oriental Studies

Saudi Arabia Delegation Visited Institute of Oriental Studies Saudi Arabia Delegation Visited Institute of Oriental Studies

 
The delegation from Saudi Arabia was headed by His Excellency Dr. Muhammad Al-Isa, the Secretary-General of the World Islamic League

The Saudi delegation met the management, research assistants of the Institute of Oriental Studies, teachers and students of the Oriental Department of the State Academic University of Humanitarian Sciences (SAUHS) working on the basis of the Institute of Oriental Studies, on April the 10th, 2019 in the Academic Council Hall of the Institute of Oriental Studies.

During the meeting the following tasks were implemented: the signing of a Cooperation Agreement between the Institute of Oriental Studies and the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Chechen Republic, co-sponsoring of the international conference “Islam is a Message of Mercy and Peace”, that was held on March 28th in Moscow and on March 30th in Grozny with the support of the World Islamic League Regional Public Fund.

The leaders and research associates of the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, the Center of the Study of Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Ural-Volga Region, the Department of Monuments of Written Written Sources of Peoples of the East, the Department of Languages of the Peoples of Asia and Africa, and other structural divisions of the Institute of Oriental Studies, the postgraduates of the Institute, teachers and students of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the State Academic University of the Humanities Sciences (SAUHS) were invited to the event.  

Participants of the event asked various questions the head of the World Islamic League.

The KSA delegation headed by Muhammad al-Isa, the Secretary-General of the World Islamic League, was in Russia on a working visit, during which official meetings were held with V. Matvienko, the Chairman of the Council of the Russian Federation, V. Volodin, the Chairman of the State Duma, R. Kadyrov, the Head of the Chechen Republic, A. Beglov, the acting Governor of St.-Peterburg, R. Minnikov, the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, S. Chebotaryov, the Minister of the Russian Federation for the North Caucasus, I. Barinov, the Head of FAEA of Russia, Mikhail Bogdanov, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, and other officials.