African Council for Scientific Research</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="African Council for Scientific Research"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="African,Council,for,Scientific,Research"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">05-01-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>African Council for Scientific Research</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_Bph7R5sd8vOUdXPvhfcs_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Cairo, Egypt: Amr Salama, Egypt's Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, has proposed that the African Union should set up an African Council for Scientific Research (ACSR) to help promote technology-based economic development across the continent. The proposal was made during the opening of the first African Congress for Scientific Research, Technology and Drug Industry held in Cairo from 13 to 15 December. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=1817&language=1 " target="blank">www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=1817&language=1 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show