ACSAD Organization and the Veterinarians’ Union/Memorandum of Understanding.
The Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dryland “ACSAD” and the Veterinarians’ Union have signed a Memorandum of understanding aimed at developing the healthy veterinary reality of livestock in the Arab countries generally, and the State of headquarters particularly. And rehabilitation of the technician veterinarian cadres to accomplish socio-economic development and consolidate efforts between the parties to reach applied scientific results that serve the livestock sector.
The Memorandum was signed by the ACSAD’s Director-General, Dr Nasr Edin Obaid, and the head of the veterinarians’ guild, Dr Iyad Al-Swaidan, at ACASAD’s headquarters today Damascus.
The Memorandum of understanding provides for collaboration between the two sides in developing the livestock sector, animal health, the Extension sector for the breeders, and raising the technical capacity of the technical veterinarian cadres.
It also provides for participation in preparing studies and implementing practical research that reflects for the benefit of the health veterinary reality of livestock; providing the technical experience needed for the veterinary cadres by ACSAD’s experts, and participation in organising and attending sessions and conferences in the veterinary areas that concern them both.
Both parties agreed on cooperation in implementing the field days that the Arab Center ACSAD conducts, exchanging scientific data and information and the specialised technical publications for the benefit of both parties, and exerting joint efforts to develop the awareness-raising role of Extension for livestock breeders.
The Memorandum aims to disseminate the individual research or the joint ones in the refereed and unrefereed journals issued by the Arab Center ACSAD and to make use of laboratories of both parties in what would serve the scientific research interest and cope with the progress in the livestock sector for the benefit of the Arab countries and headquarters State.
The Memorandum of Understanding also provides for implementing the research in the climate change area, its impact on animal health, and the methods to limit its effects. In addition to the constant consultation between both sides in various areas of livestock veterinary health to dominate on Endemic and transboundary diseases.
His Excellency, the Director-General of the ACSAD Organization, Dr Nasr Edin Obaid, explained in a speech that this Memorandum between ACSAD and the guild would be an apparent road map to raise the joint work between the two sides. He also expressed ACSAD’s readiness to provide its scientific research experiences for the success of the veterinarians’ guild process in the Headquarters State Syria and to expand towards the Arab countries.
The ACSAD’s Director-General confirmed the importance of this Memorandum within these difficult circumstances that Syria is going through. He said it came within the frame of enhancing cooperation with unions, guilds, and qualitative associations to optimise human and natural resources and contribute to developing the agricultural sector (plant and animal).
For his part, Dr Iyad Al-Swaidan, the head of veterinarians, emphasised that the signing of this cooperation convention between ACSAD and the guild would be in the interest of both parties and at the level of their ambitions on both Syrian and Arab scales.
Dr Al-Swaidan also praised the exerted efforts by the Arab Center ACSAD as an Arab house of expertise to upgrade the agricultural and animal reality in Syria and the Arab countries to the level of its ambition it had consistently achieved since the establishment; especially under the current wise and active administration; seeking to benefit from the outstanding experiences that ACSAD owned.
