Azerbaijani President to Attend GECF Meeting in Tehran

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev will participate in the third summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in Tehran on November 23. 

Azerbaijan is not a member of the GECF. So, Aliyev will attend the meeting as a guest, like President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Shana news agency reported on November 19.

Presidents of Russia, Bolivia, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Iraq, as well as the prime minister of Algeria will attend the third GECF summit. 

The member countries of the forum are Algeria, Bolivia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela. Iraq, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Norway, Oman and Peru have the status of observer members. 

Together, the GECF’s 12 member countries account for 67% of the world’s gas reserves, for 64% of global LNG exports and for 42% of cross-border pipeline trade.