Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – April 21, 1997

I went from home to the study center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to open the TB Regional Congress. Mr. Dr. [Ali Akbar] Velaiti, [Minister of Foreign Affairs] and Dr. [Alireza] Marandi, [Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education] welcomed and reported. I also talked about the importance of this measure and the need to pay attention to health and prevention, considering the number of declining infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, and explained Iran's successes in health matters. Fifty countries have participated in the congress.

From there, we went to the place of Seda-Sima for the International Congress of Rainwater Catchment Association, which organizes Jihad Sazendagi. We visited the exhibition and at the meeting, after listening to the report of Mr. [Gholamreza] Faruzesh, [Minister of Jihad Construction] and Mr. [Mohammad Taqi] Amanpour, [Deputy of Education and Research of Jihad Construction], I gave the opening speech. about

The importance of water conservation and saving in consumption, which in Iran has a successful experience with watersheds and aquifers and dam construction and recycling of urban water with sewage and treatment systems, as well as correct consumption with scientific and pressurized irrigation and technologies and industries related to each sector in Iran.

I went to my office. I did the work and went to the Marble Palace to determine the types of use of the rooms. In the evening, the Supreme Economic Council had a meeting; We distributed Note 50 credits in the amount of 200 billion Tomans and revised the prices of all types of fodder. I completed the work by nine o'clock at night and came home.