Minister of Higher Education Ghiath Barakat of Syria

Damascus, (SANA) – Minister of Higher Education Ghiath Barakat met on Saturday with President of Agha Khan University Firoz Rasul, and discussed with him potential cooperation in improving the scientific capabilities of the nursing faculties at Aleppo and al-Baath universities, in addition to the possibility of establishing a shared masters degree with Tishreen university.
Ghiath Barakat discussed on Sunday with Director of the British Council in Damascus Mrs.
Member of al-Baath Party's Regional Leadership, the Chairman of Syrian-Russian Friendship Association Ghiath Barakat described the Russian-Syrian relations as good, stressing the need to enhance them in all fields in the interests of both countries.
Syria chose peace as a strategic choice and has been working to realize it, the matter which guarantees security and stability in the region and restores rights to their legal owners according to the international resolutions, head of the Higher Education office and Research Ghiath Barakat said Wednesday.
Barakat said that Germany is considered one of the first countries to which we send our students to resume their post-graduate studies in, attracting attention to the fact that there are 954 students studying there on charge of the Syrian Government.
level of the political relations between the two countries.