Sixth EU-OPEC energy meeting to be held in Vienna
June 18, 2009 - 0:0
The sixth high-level meeting of OPEC’s energy dialogue with the European Union (EU) will take place in Vienna, Austria, on 23 June.
The two parties, recognizing the important role that the dialogue, now into its fifth year, is playing in facilitating constructive exchanges between them, will review the progress that has been made on joint activities since the fifth meeting of the Energy Dialogue in Brussels, Belgium, on 24 June 2008, and chart the way ahead for the work program for the coming 12 months.José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, President of the OPEC Conference, Minister of Petroleum of Angola; Germánico Pinto, Alternate President of the OPEC Conference, Minister of Mines and Petroleum of Ecuador; Vladimir Tošovský, President of the EU Energy Council; Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Energy; and Abdalla Salem El-Badri, Secretary General of OPEC are to attend the meeting.
(Source: Opec.org)