ECOSF and FC College Leadership's Follow-up Meeting

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The President ECOSF Prof. Dr. Manzoor H. Soomro called upon the Rector Foreman Christian College (a chartered university) Dr. James A. Tebbe at his office in Lahore on 18 Feb 2015. He thanked the Rector and his team for hosting a very successful international conference on "Emerging Trends in Life Sciences for Sustainable Developmen"t held at Lahore from 09-11 October 2014. The conference was a big success and around 30 foreign delegates from 14 different countries including ECO region and Europe and more than 100 local delegates comprising experts/scientists attended the conference.

The meeting with the Rector was a follow up of above mentioned conference. During the meeting, the course of actions on recommendations by the conference experts were discussed and it was agreed that the follow up meetings / communication with other participants / scientists of ECO region will be continued so that the recommendations can be materialized and a comprehensive future course of action chalked out for tangible results especially in biosafety and security. Dr. Soomro informed the meeting that him and Prof. Kauser Malik will be participating in the 2nd Meeting of CBRN Focal Points from Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan in Brussels on 24-25 March 2015 being organized and sponsored by the EU; wherein a concept proposal of a Training Centre at FCC will be put forwarded. The Rector endorsed the idea and assured of full support of FCC for the proposal.

The new Pro Rector of FCC Dr. Josepoh Jones, Dean Post Graduate Studies FCC Prof. Dr. Kauser A Malik and Prof. Dr. Ikram ul Haq were also present and participated in the discussion.

President ECOSF also presented Report of the conference in DVD form to the Rector, on the occasion which was highly appreciated by the Rector.