Zubair Qureshi
The Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) is holding its 4th General Meeting this year on April 14, 2020 in Accra in Ghana. This was said by an officials of the commission while talking to Pakistan Observer here on Wednesday.
The meeting has been convened by the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as the Chairperson of COMSATS, which is an inter-governmental organization based in Islamabad with 27 member states from the developing world, he further said.
The heads of states/governments having COMSATS’ membership will participate in the General Meeting of the Commission.
The commission will deliberate on socio-economic challenges being faced by the member states in order to find means to overcome these challenges through science and technology. This high level meeting will result in determining future direction and courses of action in the form of collaborative projects and programmes.
Concurrently with the General Meeting of COMSATS, President of Ghana, who is also Co-Chair (along with Prime Minister of Norway) of the UN Secretary General’s Sustainable Development Goals Advocates and member (along with 13 other Heads of States/Governments) of the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, has convened the “Accra Forum on Science & Technology for Sustainable Development”, on the 15th April, 2020.
The idea of the forum emerged as a result of discussions of a COMSATS’ delegation with officials of United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) to create a platform for promoting the role of science & technology in meeting the SDGs.
