The Secretary General Amb. Mernier visited Qatar and Saudi Arabia on 3-6 March 2007 with the aim of strengthening the Energy Charter's relationships with energy-producing countries in the Middle East.
During the visit he met in Doha with H.E. Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Industry of Qatar. While in Riyadh, he delivered the 4th IEF Energy Lecture at the Secretariat of the International Energy Forum to an audience of Saudi officials, the...
The Secretary General Amb. Mernier participated in a 'brainstorming roundtable on energy' in Berlin on 19-20 February 2007, alongside high-level government and industry participants from Russia, Germany and other European countries.
The Russian journal "Neftegazovaya Vertikal" ("Нефтегазовая Вертикаль") in its issue #3, 2007, published an article by André Mernier and Andrei Konoplyanik, which looks at the role and potential of the Energy Charter in the international energy framework, and at the relations between the Energy Charter and Russia in Russian.
A speech by the Secretary General Amb. Mernier to the Conference 'Russia and CIS - Sustainability of Production', International Petroleum Week, London, 12 February 2007.
The Deputy Secretary General, Andrei Konoplyanik, was invited by Naftogaz of Ukraine to speak at the Second Annual Investment Forum "Ukraine-Russia 2007" held in Kiev on 8 February 2007.
The Deputy Secretary General of the Energy Charter, Andrei Konoplyanik, made two presentations to the 17th session of the Working Party on Gas of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Committee on Sustainable Energy in Geneva, 23-24 January 2007.
“Recent events have again demonstrated the importance of reliable transit both for oil and for gas, and it is therefore vital to minimise the risks that can affect cross-border energy supply and energy flows in transit.” This was the message from the Secretary General André Mernier at the presentation on 18 January 2007 of a new study from the Energy Charter on oil pipelines across Eurasia.
The Secretary General Amb. André Mernier underlined the importance of transparency in regional gas flows at the inauguration of the Metrology Centre in Boyarka, Ukraine, on 21 December 2006.
The ceremony in Boyarka was attended by Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Klyuyev and by the European Union Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs.
“This is a significant decision for the Energy Charter Process, for Pakistan, and for international energy cooperation” said the Chairman of the Energy Charter Conference, Mr Henning Christophersen. “Demand for energy is growing rapidly in Pakistan and across South Asia. This will require...
The President of Pakistan met with the Secretary General Amb. Mernier during his visit to Brussels on 12 September 2006.
Pakistan has the ambition to become a major country for regional energy trade, and accession to the Energy Charter Treaty “will facilitate this ambition. This energy corridor will further help Pakistan to become a bridge of economic progress between the wider East and West.”
