Almotamar.net - President of Aden University Dr Abdulaziz Bin Haptour has on Sunday clarified those academic cooperation relations between Aden University and the French higher education establishments would be enhanced in the next period after the agreement on holding dialogue on ways of developing areas of academic cooperation between the two sides.

During his meeting at Aden University on Sunday with the French ambassador to Yemen Joseph Silva and his accompanying cultural and academic delegation Dr Bin Haptour added that Aden University has old relations the French academic institutions, pointing to the correspondences ad agreements concluded by the two sides in the past years and for the presence of more than 80 Yemeni professors of graduates of French universities working at present members of the teaching staff in Aden University.

Dr Bin Haptour also talked on the existing areas of cooperation with the French scientific establishments in areas of archaeology and preservation of the traditional architectural engineering.

For his part the French ambassador Silva expressed his readiness to contribute to developing relations of scientific cooperation between Aden University and the French academic institutions, confirming that the dialogue to bee conducted in the next days would open spacious horizons for academic cooperation between the two sides.

The French ambassador also indicated the importance Aden University joining to the Francophone Academic University Agency which carries out coordination relations of scientific cooperation with many world universities.