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Riyadh, A Saudi rowing team member qualified for Tokyo Olympiad 2020.
Hussein Ridha, the Saudi national will represent the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in the competition of the open weight in addition to his teammate Sultan Al-Shali, as a substitute in the Olympics to be hosted in Tokyo from next July 21 to August 7.
This is the first time for a Saudi rowing team member to qualify for an Olympiad.
Source: Saudi Press Agency
Damascus, the Syrian Olympiad for Informatics gained a bronze medal at the Asian Informatics Olympiad 2021.
The medal was won by Bernard George Ibrahimsha, a student of the third year of high school from Aleppo, at the Olympiad organized by Indonesia remotely on May 22nd, with the participation of 845 students representing 35 countries, according to a statement by the Distinctive and Creativity Authority.
The Syrian participation is the thirteenth for the students of the Syrian Scientific Olympiad in the Asian Informatics Olympiad in which elite of the most powerful countries in Asia and the Pacific are competing, such as Japan, China, Russia and Iran.
Source: Syrian Arab News Agency
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia national under-23 football team is scheduled to hold a preparation camp in Marbella, Spain, during the next FIFA days between May 31 and June 15, as part of the fourth stage of the preparation program for the Olympic Games in Tokyo scheduled to kick off in late July.
The national team, during the camp in Spain, is scheduled to play three friendly matches against Australia, Mexico and Argentine.
The Saudi Arabia national under-23 football team plays in the fourth group of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games along with the national teams of Brazil, Germany and Côte d’Ivoire.
Source: Saudi Press Agency
Riyadh, Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal, Chairman of the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee and Stephen Fox, Vice-President of Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF), representing 23 federations, have co-signed a contract under which the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will obtain the right to organize the World Combat World Games’ Tournaments in 2023.
The event is an extension of the Kingdom’s moves to host various world games, a matter that turned it into a worldwide recognized forum for sports, in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 and to promote a vibrant society with a diversified and robust economy.
Source: Saudi Press Agency
Riyadh, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has won a bronze award in the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO) 2021, organized virtually by Indonesia.
The Saudi informatics national team’s is making its debut in the Olympiad, with the presence of 35 countries.
Fares bin Ibrahim Basiouni, a student at Education Department of the Royal Commission for Yanbu, won the bronze award among participants representing the most powerful countries in the Asia-Pacific region in the field of informatics, such as Japan, China and Russia.
Source: Saudi Press Agency
Riyadh, Riyadh will host today the third meeting of the executive office of the state parties of UNESCO’s International Convention against Doping in Sport “the seventh session”, which will be held over two days.
The meeting will be held in the presence and participation of the secretary general of the convention, UNESCO deputy director general and representatives of the following: World Anti-Doping Agency, International Olympic Committee, Interpol, European Union, African Union, International Center for the Prevention of Crime, and head of approvals in UNESCO convention, in addition to the head of the executive office for UNESCO and deputy sports minister in the Dominican Republic, and deputies of UNESCO director general: Russian minister of sports, Senegal’s minister of sports, advisor of the minister of sports in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Chinese deputy minister of sports.
The meeting will go over several agendas that concern developments in the convention, follow up on the application of the 191 state parties to the convention goals, issuing resolutions related to compliance, in addition to discussing the agenda of the main conference scheduled to be held in Paris, UNESCO headquarters, during next October.
Source: Saudi Press Agency
Damascus, Contest of Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO) 2021 kicked off on Saturday with participation of Students of the Syrian Scientific Olympiad.
(APIO) 2021 is organized by Indonesia online with participation of 35 countries.
The Distinction and Creativity Commission said in a statement to SANA that all the members of the national team in informatics numbered 33 will participate in this Olympiad through 5 examination centers distributed in the provinces of Aleppo, Damascus, Lattakia, Homs, and Tartous.
The period of tasks will last for 5 successive hours, including high-level programming matters.
This is the thirteenth participation of the students of the Syrian Scientific Olympiad in Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad, with participation of countries in Asia and the Pacific, including Japan, China, Russia and Iran.
Source: Syria Arab News Agency
Athens, Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan, Minister of Culture, met today at the Acropolis Museum in the Greek capital Athens with his counterpart, the Minister of Culture and Sports of the Hellenic Republic, Dr. Lina Mendoni.
During the meeting, the two sides reviewed the plan proposed by the Saudi side concerning the cultural partnership, and ways to enhance and develop it to serve the two friendly countries.
The Minister of Culture praised the ancient cultural heritage of the Republic of Greece, stressing the importance of building cultural cooperation between the two countries at a strategic level, and for this cooperation to contribute to developing the cultural sector and support practitioners and intellectuals in the two countries.
The meeting included discussing the clauses of the proposed plan, which comprise establishing cultural weeks between the two countries, loaning of antiquities from both sides, and donating a sculpture of art to the Greek Republic to be placed in one of the most prominent locations as a symbol of cultural cooperation between the two countries.
This is in addition to encouraging the exchange of visits between cultural delegations, inviting the Greek side to participate in the Kingdom’s most prominent cultural forums, loaning employees and specialists between the two ministries to share experiences and build capacities, as well as strengthening cooperation in the field of excavation in the village of Al-Faw in particular, due to its connection with the Greek civilization.
The two sides agreed on the importance of discussing ways to enable the Kingdom and Greece to expand the scope of their cooperation in cultural fields.
They decided to initiate consultations with a view to agree on a bilateral memorandum of understanding on cultural cooperation, encompassing exchanges and sharing experience concerning heritage and museums, archeology and preservation of antiquities, cultural festivals and modern culture.
They also agreed to join forces to address issues of global concern, such as the protection of tangible and intangible heritage from deliberate destruction, alteration and misuse, and the countering of illicit trafficking in cultural property, in time of peace as well as in time of conflict.
Bearing in mind that both Saudi Arabia and Greece are parties to the “Convention on the means of prohibiting and preventing the illicit import, export and transfer of ownership of cultural property” (UNESCO 1970), the “Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (UNESCO 1972), the “Convention on the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage” (UNESCO 2003) and the “Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions” (UNESCO 2005), they underlined their willingness to cooperate to address these issues also in the framework of UNESCO.
The two sides stressed that world heritage monuments showcase the multifaceted history of the region and carry a message of mutual understanding, coexistence and respect to future generations and agreed to exert further efforts to protect the collective memory and historical references from deliberate attacks and intentional destruction or alteration.
At the end of the meeting, the Minister of Culture gave an official invitation to his Greek counterpart and her team to visit the Kingdom, attend major cultural events, and tour its cultural and heritage landmarks, in addition to participating in the “Future of Culture Summit,” which will be held virtually at the end of this year and in-person next year.
After the meeting ended, the Culture Minister and his accompanying delegation had lunch at the museum, at the invitation of the Greek Minister of Culture and Sports.
On the Saudi side, the meeting was attended by the Kingdom’s ambassador to the Republic of Greece, Dr. Saad bin Abdulrahman Al-Ammar, the Deputy Minister of Culture, Hamid bin Mohammed Fayez, the General Supervisor of Cultural Affairs and International Relations, Rakan Al-Toq, and the Supervisor of the International Cultural Relations Agency, Fahd Al-Kanaan.
This meeting comes within a series of meetings that the Minister of Culture is conducting with a number of Greek officials during his two-day official visit to the Greek Republic, which aims to lay the foundation stone for cultural cooperation between the two countries and between the Ministry of Culture and its Greek counterpart to work on an extensive cultural program over the next two years, besides focusing on creating quality opportunities that serve cultural fields in both the Kingdom and the Republic of Greece.
Source: Saudi Press Agency
Damascus, Syria won a bronze medal at 2021 International Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad, which was organized by Russia from remote on April 22-23, with the participation of students from 31 countries.
Distinction and Creativity Agency said in a statement to SANA that student Maha Ali, who achieved the bronze medal, is from al-Bassel High School for Distinguished Students from Tartous governorate and was among the Syrian team participating in the Olympiad competition which included four students who were among the first in the national selection tests for the speciality of chemistry.
The tests for the first round of 2021 International Mendeleev Olympiad for Chemistry were launched on the 22nd of last April, which included scientific tests of five continuous hours each, within one examination center at the headquarters of the Agency in Damascus.
This is the third participation of the Syrian Science Olympiad students in the Mendeleev competition.
Source: Syrian Arab News Agency