In the presence of ASPU President Dr. Sharif Al-Ashkar, faculty deans, head and members of the National Union of Syrian Students (NUSS) branch, and several key Russian and Syrian researchers, the international conference was opened in ASPU medical faculties at al-Tal premises held by Primakov Center for International Cooperation in Foreign Policy in cooperation with Alexander Gorchakov Fund for Public Diplomacy and the Russian Academy of Sciences

The conference was held under the title: The development of Russian-Syrian relations in a changing world order: problems and prospects with the aim to discuss bilateral cooperation in political, economic and humanitarian fields.

Russian and Syrian researchers have participated and discussed cooperation in political, economic and humanitarian fields.

Dr. al-Ashkar stressed the strong Syrian-Russian relations, which have been developed to strategic cooperation that serves the interests of the two peoples of Syria and Russia.

He added that this relationship was baptized with the blood of the martyrs of the Syrian and Russian armies on the beloved Syrian land, stressing the words of President Bashar al-Assad that Syrian and Russian armies are confronting a common enemy, in Syria extremism and Nazism in Ukraine.

He expressed success for this conference, thanking the organizers and those in charge of this important political and economic meeting, wishing them a pleasant stay in their second country, Syria.

Then , Nikolai Sukhoi, head of the Cultural Center in Syria, Sergey Afontser, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and professor of economics, and Victoria Korslieva, CEO of the Primakov Center spoke about the importance of the conference.

Lectures of the conference first session talked about the Middle East in a changing world and a general discussion of the areas of cooperation between Russia and Syria in the field of education, and all questions presented were listened to and answered.

The lectures also spoke about the Russian-Syrian relations in all political, economic, military and scientific fields, especially ties and bonds of friendship between the two countries.