Kathmandu, Mar. 9:Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai today inaugurated the international conference of the graduates who received higher education in Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States and the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the People’s Friendship University.

Referring to the significant contribution made to the Asian nations in the educational sector by the then Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States affiliated to the Russian universities, he noted that the People’s Friendship University should emphasis on producing standard human resources in the field of science and technology.

The government is willing to maintain solidarity with the educational institutions of the cis, Mr Bhattarai said, expressing the conviction that the conference would reach specific conclusions on educational system suitable for the 21st century.

On the occasion, Prime Minister Bhattarai launched a book entitled “An Introduction to the theory of Stability of Motion.”

At the three-day conference organised by Mitra Kunj, the Alumni Association of the Nepali graduates who received higher education in cis, technical personnel including doctors, engineers and scientists from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, Sri Lanka, Japan, Vietnam and Nepal who had studied in cis are attending the conference.

The conference is being organised with the objective of holding discussions on the roles to be played and contributions that can be made by the graduates of the educational institutions of Russia and cis in the social, economic, scientific and technological development of the Asian countries as wells as on the impact of the international development of science and technology in the Asian countries.

Ambassador of the Russian Federation V. Ivanov, referring to the close friendship existing between Nepal and Russia even at the people’s level said that the conference would help   enhance ties in the economic, social and educational sectors Also.

Deputy chief of the Russian International Centre Vladimir Korolev also said that the universities and other educational institutions of cis were interested in exchanging cooperation in various filed including education, science, trade and information.

President of Mitra Kunj Nepal Mukunda Dhakal, Dr. P. P. Timilsina, Professor of People’s Friendhip Univeristy Alexander Gladush, executive director of Incorvuz Alexander V. Soloviev and Dr. Khondoker B. Hoque referred to the contributions being made by the universities of the cis in the educational and technical sectors.