PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia and Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Tuesday to forge bilateral cooperation in the area of science and technology for a period of five years.
The MoU was signed by Deputy Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Fadillah Yusof and Vice President of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Dr Abdulaziz Mohammed Al-Swailem.
The MoU provides for a Malaysia-Saudi Arabia Joint Committee on Science and Technology to be set up to identify and facilitate collaboration between Malaysian and Saudi Arabian research institutes through, among others, joint research, exchange of scientists, joint conferences and common utilisation of scientific equipment.
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