The Secretary General of the Academy, H.E. Prof. Koutoub Sano, chaired on Thursday 22 Jamada al-Akhira 1442, corresponding to 4 February 2021, the seventh periodic meeting of the heads of the Academy’s divisions. His Excellency opened the meeting by stressing the need to expedite solving technical issues and providing a suitable working environment for some of the Academy’s staff to carry out their work effectively.

His Excellency spoke of the results of his visit to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Province of Makkah and his meeting with H.E. Amb. Hani Moumina, Director General of the Makkah Branch of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, to strengthen cooperation and communication relations between the Academy and the agencies of the of Foreign Affairs Ministry in the headquarters country. His Excellency also spoke of the results of the visit of the OIC Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the Secretariat General of the Academy.

His Excellency alerted all the Academy’s personnel of the need to respect and fully comply with all the directives of the Health Ministry regarding health precautions, especially social distancing, wearing masks and carrying personal rugs to praying places.

Furthermore, His Excellency instructed the IT department to work on the continuous updating of the Academy’s website and to integrate the electronic version of the newsletter on various social media sites in order to make it accessible to the largest possible number of readers, and to make the newsletter the Academy’s window on the world.

His Excellency decided to establish a permanent committee to update and develop the Academy’s website and to seek ways to use new media to disseminate the Academy’s monthly newsletter on various social media sites. Mr. Murad Al-Tlili has been assigned to chair this committee whose members include Dr. Ismail Cebeci, Mr. Hassan Kumait, Mr. Jawzi Lardjane, Mr. Saad Al-Sammar and Ms. Sarah Amjad Hussain.

His Excellency referred to the completion of the review of the Academy’s strategic plan, confirming its printing by February 14, 2021. Ms. Sarah Amjad Hussain has been charged to send copies of the strategic plan to all divisions’ heads at the Academy to express their final notes on the strategic plan by Wednesday 10 February 2021 at the latest.

Her Excellency concluded the meeting by thanking the team that worked on the adjustment of the main Academy warehouse located at Quraysh Street, Jeddah.