Iraqi President to Attend GECF Tehran Summit
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iraqi President Fouad Masum said he will attend the third summit meeting of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in the Iranian capital of Tehran later this month.
In a Sunday meeting with Iranian Envoy to Baghdad Hassan Danaeifar, Masum said he will participate in the meeting, which is scheduled to open on November 23.
The Iraqi president will travel to Tehran at the invitation of his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani.
During the meeting, Foad Masum attached great importance to Tehran-Baghdad ties and stressed the need for the two countries to scale up their bilateral cooperation in all areas.
He also asked the Iranian ambassador to convey his warm greetings to President Rouhani.
The Gas Summit is a meeting of heads of states and governments of GECF member countries. It is an opportunity for heads of states to interact and exchange views.
The Summit affords GECF member states the opportunity to discuss at the highest level developments, trends, and policies on energy in general and gas in particular and also to reaffirm their continued support to the objectives of the Forum.
The forum, founded in 2001, unites leading natural gas exporting countries and coordinates cooperation between its member states.
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.
