DUSHANBE, September 29, 2010, Asia-Plus — International scientific-practical conference entitled “Prospects of Interdisciplinary High-Altitude Research of Natural Systems and Astrocosmic Factors within Framework of the Pamir-Chakaltai International Scientific Research Center (ISRC)” has opened in Dushanbe today.
Aleksandr Kalugin, a spokesman for the CIS Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation (IFHC), says that inaugurating the conference, academician Mamadsho Ilolov, President of Tajikistan’s Academy of Sciences, noted that the center resumed operations in 2008 after signing of a government-to-government agreement between Tajikistan and Russia.
Ilolov noted that the center is dedicated to conduct nuclear and astrophysical researches of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays using an infrastructure of Ak-Arkhar high-altitude scientific site at the Pamirs. He stressed that researchers from the CIS and other nations could participate in researches conducted by the center.
The IFHC CEO Armen Smbtyan, for his part, said that science was foundation of development of peoples, and therefore, the necessity of supporting science was obvious. Smbtyan noted that the event was held as part of the Year of Science and Innovations (2010).
Organized by the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan under support of the CIS IFHC, the conference has brought together researchers from nine CIS nations, Mr. Kalugin said.
We will recall that the agreement on the establishment of the Pamir-Chakaltai international research center was signed during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s official visit to Tajikistan in August 2008 and the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) ratified the agreement on February 11, 2009.
