Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to visit Russia at the head of a delegation to participate in the 2nd summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), Irans Embassy in Moscow says.The forum is scheduled to be held in Moscow on July 1-2.
In addition to delivering a speech at the summit, the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran will hold one-on-one meetings with President of the Russian Federation [Vladimir Putin] and some other senior officials attending the conference, the Embassy said in a statement on Friday.
President Ahmadinejad is also scheduled to meet Russian elite and Iranian expatriates, attend a press conference and give exclusive interviews to leading Russian media.
The [2nd] summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum will be an opportunity to strengthen cooperation among member countries and exchange views at the highest level on the current and future situation of the gas market and gas industry, the statement read.
The 1st GECF summit was held in the Qatari capital, Doha, in 2011, bringing together 12 permanent members and three observer countries.
The GECF was founded in 2001 in the Iranian capital, Tehran, and its member states control over 70 percent of the worlds natural gas reserves as well as more than 80 percent of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) production.
The legal establishment of the forum took place on December 2008 in Moscow, where energy ministers of member states adopted the forums charter and signed an intergovernmental agreement.
By Press TV
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