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Turkmen president’s upcoming Tehran visit aimed at attending GECF

Oil&Gas Materials 17 November 2015 12:49 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 17

By Khalid Kazimov - Trend:

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov is expected to pay an official visit to Tehran Nov 23 to attend the third summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF).

Turkmenistan is a non-GECF country and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov will attend the summit as an observer, Iranian oil news agency Shana reported Nov 17.

Heads of states from six member states of the GECF will attend the Summit in Tehran on November 23.

"Our main strategy is to help resolve security concerns, while helping to remove the climate change problem through replacing coal with natural gas at least in electricity generation. If natural gas replaces coal over the next 40 years, the share of GECF in the global gas market will increase and climate change will be curbed significantly," Shana quoted Mehdi Asali, Iranian Oil Ministry's secretary for OPEC affairs, as saying Nov 15.

"No GECF member state is opposing this strategy, because in addition to earning revenues they will notably help protect the environment," Aslani added.

Iran, Russia, Algeria, the UAE, Venezuela, Qatar, Egypt, Bolivia, Libya, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, and Trinidad and Tobago are the members of the forum and the Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Peru, Iraq, Oman, and Norway hold observer status.

Without mentioning any names Shana's report suggested that the heads of six states will participate in the summit. However a report by RIA Novosti On November 13 said that Russian President Vladimir Putin will also visit Iran to take part in the summit.

On November 16, Azizollah Ramezani, the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC)'s director for international affairs said that a new global gas model, studied during last five years, will be unveiled at the summit.

The new model is expected to be beneficial to the GECF member states for making investment plans and also developing their export markets.

Earlier in March, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani made a two-day official visit to Ashgabat at the invitation of his Turkmen counterpart, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.

During the visit, Rouhani announced that Iran and Turkmenistan had decided to increase the total value of their economic exchanges to $60 billion in the coming decade.

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