Kabul, Colombo Think Tanks ink MoU

KABUL and Sri Lanka’s Think Tanks on knowledge Exchange and Research Cooperation.

Afghan Ambassador to Colombo Mohammad Ashraf Haidar has promoted the formation of lasting and fruitful relations between the civil society organizations of the two countries.

Haidari told Pajhwok Afghan News he had facilitated, hosted and witnessed the virtual signing ceremony of a historic MoU between the Afghan Institute of Strategic Studies (AISS) and the Regional Center of Strategic Studies (RCSS) as the two leading policy and research think-tanks of Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.

Before the signing of the MoU, Haidari explained the importance of the MoU, advancing knowledge exchange and research cooperation on issues of shared interest and concern in regional and global contexts with implications for the two countries.

“The signing of the MOU follows my hard efforts over the few past months to further deepen ties between the civil societies of Afghanistan and Sri Lanka as two democracies with common democratic values and many shared and converging interests in the social, political, defense and strategic, economic, and cultural spheres,” He said.

He thanked Dr. Davood Moradian, the Founder and Director-General of AISS, for responding positively when we reached out to him for building think-tank to think-tank ties between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, as we are waiting to hear back from others in the future.

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