almotamar.net - A plenary meeting was held in the Malaysian North state Kuala Kadh, 500km to the north of the capital Kuala Lumpur Sunday convening presidency of the Malaysian University of Utara and the Yemeni Cultural Attach� Office there to discuss mechanism of developing academic cooperation between the Yemeni ministry of higher education and Utara University.

In the meeting the Yemeni cultural Attach� Sultan al-Shuaibi extended an invitation to Utara University to visit Yemen's academic establishments and to discuss possibility of exchanging academic cadres as well as discussion of cooperation protocols.

Vice-President of Utara University for Academic Affairs Professor Abdulrazzaq Tchic extolled Yemen's pursuit of investment in knowledge via sending Yemeni students to study in Malaysian universities to benefit from their educational experiment and transfer it to Yemen.
Al-Shuaibi told almotamar.net that sending new Yemeni students to Utara University was because it is a deep-rooted academic institution with international relations as well as it occupies the first place among the Malaysian universities in the field of administrative and financial sciences.