Ministerial Round Table --The Basic Sciences: The Science Lever for Development

Ministerial Round Table program:

A Ministerial Round Table will be held in conjunction with the UNESCO General Conference, at the UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 13-14 October 2005. It is to "provides a forum for an exchange of views and a political debate between high-level decision-makers on the challenges to be taken on by the basic sciences in their service to society and on actions to be taken by governments and the scientific community in order to build up an adequate capacity in the basic sciences and assure their use as a lever for development."