Hawzah News Agency –During the meeting of Iran’s Ambassador and Cultural Attaché in Thailand with the officials of Sirin Nakharin State University, both sides expressed the willingness to expand scientific and educational cooperation between the two countries.

According to the Public Relations Department of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO), the officials of Sirin Nakharin State University, met with the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Thailand, Seyed Reza Nobakhti.

Referring to the scientific progress and achievements of his home country, Nobakhti talked about areas of academic cooperation between the two countries and providing a realistic picture of Iran today, with growing and constructive potentials.

He also considered the exchange of professors and students and the granting of scholarships, especially in the technical, engineering and medical sectors, as beneficial and a platform for the development of relations between the two countries.

Holding an exhibition of cultural works, tourism, handicrafts, carpets and other scientific and industrial sectors and achievements were among the programs to get familiar with potentials of the two countries.

The meeting, was also attended by Hasankhani, Iran’s cultural Attaché in Thailand, who elaborated on the history of joint cultural activities with the university, especially the successful holding of Iranology workshops in recent years.

He also proposed holding a joint scientific meeting and some cultural issues of civilization and current developments in the region, which were discussed and exchanged views.

Pom Molsilpa, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, while expressing interest in developing academic-academic relations, said that the capacities for expanding interactions are extensive and useful, and announced readiness to develop collaborations and use of each other's capacities.

By inviting the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Thailand to visit the said university, he raised the issue of preparing and extending the Memorandum of Understanding at the next meeting, which was agreed upon.