OREANDA-NEWS. December 25, 2015. Rector of Baku Higher Oil School Elmar Gasimov hosted the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Afghanistan to Azerbaijan Mohammad Taqi Khalili at the meeting at BHOS.

Welcoming the ambassador, BHOS rector briefed on the history of the higher school and said their mission was to educate and train highly qualified specialists for petroleum and chemical industries. BHOS offered free English-speaking educational programmes. He said BHOS new campus was going to be the largest one, not only in the country, but also in the Caucasus, and its construction would be completed by the end of the year. Every year BHOS receives top students and the number of Presidential Scholarship winners was going up annually. The rector said that the school realizes education with the programmes of UK Herriot-Watt University. While elaborating on the opportunities for Afghan students to study at BHOS, Mr. Gasimov asked Mr. Khalili to support the collaboration in this regard, emphasizing BHOS commitment to welcome Afghan students next year.

Ambassador Khalili said he was pleased of being at BHOS. He highly appreciated the support and care constantly demonstrated by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev to development of the country. Recalling his visit to Azerbaijan 20 years ago, Mr. Khalili said that he has witnessed great development in the country. The Ambassador especially underlined that the issue of education has always been in focus during all the meetings he had in Azerbaijan. He thanked the rector for offering the opportunity to educate Afghan students at BHOS assuring his support in this respect.