Vladimir Karanik
MINSK, 18 September (BelTA) – Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vladimir Karanik has been elected the new head of the International Association of Academies of Sciences (IAAS). The decision was made at a session of the IAAS Council in Minsk on 18 September, BelTA has learned.
New IAAS academicians were also elected at today’s session of the International Association of Academies of Sciences. In addition to Vladimir Karanik the new academicians include Chief Academic Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vasily Gursky, President of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan Shavkat Ayupov, President of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences Demberel Sodnomsambuu, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Aldoshin, Vice President of the national research center Kurchatov Institute Alexander Blagov.
Participants of the session discussed the main results of the IAAS work and promising avenues of development of the association, the operation of the IAAS Council of Young Scientists, and the election of full members (academicians). The heads of the academies of sciences focused on matters concerning future mutually beneficial cooperation in key avenues of development of modern science. Leading scientists of various countries presented research reports.
Since 2017 the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus has been the headquarters of the International Association of Academies of Sciences (IAAS), providing organizational and methodological support. The association unites 27 academies of sciences and major research centers from 16 countries (CIS states, China, Vietnam, Mongolia, Georgia, Cuba, and Montenegro). As many as 27 scientific councils on advanced fields of science operate within the IAAS framework. The association’s supreme governing body is the IAAS Council.
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