The Secretary General of the Academy, Prof. Koutoub Moustapha Sano, chaired the twenty-seventh weekly meeting of the directors of departments of the Academy, on Monday 30 Shaaban 1442 corresponding to 13 April 2021.

His Excellency spoke about the reception ceremony of the Consuls General of the African Union countries accredited to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the first of its kind to the Academy, and about informing the consuls the Academy’s willingness to strengthen cooperation and communication with their countries. His Excellency briefed them on the Academy’s history, vision, mission, and objectives. He spoke about the most important achievements of the Academy in recent years and took the opportunity to express his thanks to the Cabinet Department for organizing this event.

His Excellency mentioned the consultative symposium organized by the Academy with the Awqaf Secretariats and Public Directorates in the GCC countries entitled “Towards a Scientific Partnership between the Academy and the Secretariats General of Awqaf in the GCC” in which many Awqaf Secretaries and Directors from the GCC participated. His Excellency presented Academy’s Waqf Fund and showed the importance of strengthening cooperation relations with the Awqaf authorities, in the hope of obtaining their substantial support to enable the Academy to continue the progress and achieve its goals and ambitions. His Excellency thanked the Media Department, the Seminars and Conferences Department, and the Research Department for their efforts that led to the success of this seminar’s success.

The meeting resulted in several decisions, including:

-Redesigning and printing the Statute of the Academy Waqf Fund with the addition of the members of the Board of Trustees, the Supervisory Board and defining the general policy of the Waqf Fund.

-Updating and printing the brochures and add the basic information about the Waqf Fund.

-Reproducing and updating the documentary film about the Academy and dividing it into different clips.

-Reviewing and defining the research that the Academy wishes to publish.

-To call researchers on the subjects of the twenty-fifth session and inform them of the required subjects and research criteria.