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Azerbaijan to join Sofia Energy Summit

21 April 2009 16:10 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Rashad Suleymanov â€“ APA-Economics. Bulgaria’s Sofia is hosting the world energy summit entitled "Natural Gas for Europe: Security and Partnership" on April 24-25.

Azerbaijanâ€™s Minister of Industry and Energy Natig Aliyev is due to lead a delegation to Sofia to attend the event, said the ministry.

The world energy forum "Natural for Europe: Security and Partnership," which is organized by the Bulgarian government on the initiative of President Georgi Parvanov, is scheduled to take place at Sofia’s National Palace of Culture.

Invitations to the Sofia Summit were extended to 28 countries from South East Europe, the Black Sea region and the Caspian region, Central Asia, European Union Member States that are directly involved in the development of the Southern Gas Corridor, the United States, Russia, the EU presidency, and the European Commission, according to news on the official website of the event.

The goal of the summit will be to engage EU’s major energy partners in a dialogue on the EU energy security approach. Accordingly, EU member states will become aware of the political will of producers and transit countries to satisfy their interests in line with the proposed new EU Energy Security and Solidarity Action Plan.

The summit, which is expected to bring together dozens of acting heads of state and other high ranking officials from around the globe, was initially supposed to be held in the southern city of Plovdiv.