Proposed by Geological Survey of Iran: Establishing a Coherent Network and Geosciences Database of Shanghai Member States

Following the holding of the Euro-Asia Economic Forum (2023) in Xi'an, China, Dr. Jafar Omrani, Deputy of Geology at GSI, attended both the meeting and the Forum "International Cooperation in Earth Sciences and Eurasian Green Mining Investment - 2023 among Shanghai Member States".

In this forum Some participants from member states including Iran, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan as well as the observer states i.e., Belarus, Armenia and Turkey were in attendance.

The Forum "International Cooperation in Earth Sciences and Eurasian Green Mining Investment - 2023 "was commenced together with the Euro-Asia Economic Forum- 2023 and proceeded by the summit of the heads of Geological Surveys of Shanghai Member States in the Large conference hall of Xi'an and the lectures of some economic ministers and main authorities of this treaty.

During the opening session, a round table comprising 11 member and observer states was held in the Geological Survey of Xi'an office and then all delegates including Dr. Omrani from GSI provided their view points. He elaborated on the issues as to the role of geosciences in human society regarding the environment and the climate change problems and their relations with earth sciences and especially mining.

Dr. Omrani as the representative of Iran also proposed establishing a coherent network as well as geosciences database of Shanghai member states. In addition, he respectively pointed to the history of Iran geology, introduction of GSI and the areas of foreign investment in exploration, mine and mineral industries in his country.

In the course of final days of this summit, an important meeting took place in Geological Survey of China- Xi'an office in which the fields of cooperation between GSI and CGS were brought into discussion and afterwards the Iranian representative provided some opinions on revolutionary projects and the type of cooperation between both countries.

These talks were based on the technical knowledge transfer and different fields of cooperation and Geological Survey of China expressed its desire to continue the cooperation started in 2015 after the signing the MOU between 2 Surveys. It also suggested a new MOU including the titles as per the recent strategies of the Geological Survey containing revolutionary projects,3D geological maps, knowledge of airborne geophysics data interpretation and so on be signed.

Furthermore, the minutes content agreed by all 11 states and based upon the promotion of geoscience cooperation among these countries was approved and signed as well.

The main items mentioned in the intended minutes are as follows:

• Strengthening the communications of the national strategy for the development of geosciences.
• International cooperation in potential evaluation of mineral resources and geological surveys.
• Strengthening the share of international geoscience information.
• Strengthening the exchange and training of the international geoscience talents, skills and academic visits among the member states.