President Vo Van Thuong just met in Hanoi with 56 international and Vietnamese scientists attending the international scientific conference "Windows on the Universe" that recently took place in Quy Nhon city, the south-central province of Binh Dinh, VNA reported.

At the meeting, several scientists spoke at the meeting such as Professor Geradus 't Hooft, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics, Utrecht University, Netherlands; Dr. Monica Pepe-Altarelli, European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland; Prof. Jean Audouze, Paris Institute of Astrophysics, France, former senior scientific adviser to the French President; Prof. Pham Quang Hung, overseas Vietnamese in the US, currently teaching at the University of Virginia, USA; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Ngoc Diep, Vietnam National Space Center.

President Vo Van Thuong meets in Hanoi international and Vietnamese scientists attending the international scientific conference "Windows on the Universe". Photo: VNA

Many expressed their willingness to cooperate and work with Vietnam They said Vietnam needs to take advantage its strengths to develop science and technology.

They also hope the Party and State to have policies to ensure job positions, a professional working environment, and to limit constraints of administrative procedures; create conditions for scientists to attend conferences and seminars abroad as well as create conditions for international scientists to live and work in Vietnam.

President Vo Van Thuong highly appreciated the contributions to the development of science and eduction in Vietnam over the past 30 years the "Rencontres du Vietnam" Association (Meeting Vietnam), especially Prof. Tran Thanh Van, Prof. Le Kim Ngoc as well as scientists from the association.

On the path of renewal, international integration, and national construction and development, the Party and State of Vietnam always consider science-technology and education-training the top national policy, he said.

Vietnam identifies intellectuals as a particularly important labour force in the country’s industrialisation and modernisation process and international integration, he said.

The country always focuses on attracting and using talents, developing high-quality human resources and building a strong contigent of intellectuals for sustainable national development, he added.

The President said he hopes that Vietnam continues receiving cooperation and support from international scientists and Vietnamese scientists abroad in the coming time.

President Vo Van Thuong and international and Vietnamese scientists attending the international scientific conference "Windows on the Universe" take a joint photo at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on August 12. Photo: VNA

He asked competent agencies and localities, including Binh Dinh province, to continue supporting the "Rencontres du Vietnam" Association in the realiaation of its projects for science and education.

Besides, it is necessary to build and improve suitable mechanisms and policies to create more favourable conditions for scientists, he said.

The international scienfitic conference that opened on August 7 in Binh Dinh province is an academic forum for domestic and international scientists to collaborate, exchange ideas, and discuss the latest discoveries in the fields of particle physics, high energy physics, and astronomy.

At the meeting. Photo: VNA

It is organised by Vietnam's International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE), the "Rencontres du Vietnam" Assocation, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Binh Dinh Provincial People's Committee.

The conference had 31 sessions with plenary sessions and specialised thematic sessions on astrophysics, and high energy physics. On its sidelines, international scientists are offered opportunities to learn about local cultural history, and visit famous tourist destinations of Binh Dinh.

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