African
energy ministers to meet in T&T
By Juhel Browne
Trinidad Express
Port
Spain
Petroleumworldtt.com
02 11 07
Energy Ministers from the seven West African countries
that are to receive free energy sector expertise
from Trinidad and Tobago are to meet in this country
to discuss the initiative later this year.
Prime Minister Patrick Manning launched
what the government is calling the West Africa initiative
on Monday during his address day of the Eighth Summit
of the African Union in Addis Adaba, Ethiopia.
"Very early in the second quarter
of this year, a meeting of the energy ministers
from seven countries will be convened in Trinidad
and Tobago to commence the energy initiative,"
Whitehall said in a statement on Tuesday.
Government will be providing the
free energy sector expertise to Gabon, Equatorial
Guinea, Chad, Nigeria, Congo, Cameroon and Angola.
Whitehall said Manning held bilateral
meetings yesterday with representatives of nine
African states: Benin, Western Sahara, Gabon, Angola,
Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, Mozambique and the Republic
of Congo.
Those
meetings, according to Whitehall, lasted "well
into the evening" and occurred after Manning's
address to the summit on Monday which it said "stirred
great interest among member countries" of the
AU.
Trinidad
Express
Thursday, February 1st 2007
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