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- The Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Tarek el-Molla will participate in the upcoming meeting of the East Mediterranean Gas Forum, scheduled to be held soon
- He is attending this important meeting at the invitation of US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm
- El-Molla held recent talks with Granholm on the sidelines of his participation in the World Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland. During the discussions, the two sides discussed aspects of cooperation between Egypt and the United States in the field of energy and partnership in this field
The Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Tarek el-Molla will participate in the upcoming meeting of the East Mediterranean Gas Forum, scheduled to be held soon. He is attending this important meeting at the invitation of US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm.
El-Molla held recently talks with Granholm on the sidelines of his participation in the World Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland. During the discussions, the two sides discussed aspects of cooperation between Egypt and the United States in the field of energy and partnership in this field. Developments in cooperation in the East Mediterranean Gas Forum, of which the United States participates as an observer came up for review. The US-Egypt strategic relations and how it could be improved in the coming days also figured in the discussions.
They also discussed the future of cooperation between Egypt and the United States through the joint strategic dialogue initiative in the field of energy, in addition to examining the results of the recent meetings of the East Mediterranean Gas Forum.
Issues like transporting and exporting natural gas through the efforts of the forum countries to deliver gas to Europe and the measures that have been taken to export Egyptian gas to Lebanon via Jordan and Syria also came up for discussion at the meeting.
