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The Global Gas Centre maintains close partner relations with the World Energy Council that allows our members to have direct access to important researches and actions. Besides, GGC has signed the Memorandum of mutual understanding with United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to promote cooperation in the field of researches, analysis and technical cooperation in developing countries. Our purpose is as much as possible to use possibilities of a platform of the United Nations for gas advancement, as effective and pure energy source. I also am the adviser of group of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) for gas advancement, as fuel for transport.
Our centre is in Geneva. This Swiss city became the important centre of trade in raw goods, especially energy carriers and natural gas. The affinity to the international organisations also is important for our discussions and an exchange of best practices.
GGC has the right to address to any theme as which its members consider actual, it can vary from tendencies of the global market of gas, supply and demand, decontrol and market mechanisms, policy and strategy, new workings out in gas infrastructure, regional integration, new technologies, such as biogas, hydrogen, CCS, transformation of energy to gas, evolutions of international gas contracts, LNG fuel use in Asia and in the Asian market, pricing and trade in gas, regulation of market and other issues.
The freedom in choosing that is a distinctive feature of our organisation. According to supervising principles of the antimonopoly law and the legislation on a competition, members of the Global Gas Centre do not exchange the confidential commercial information. These themes are discussed during meetings at high level and the round tables organized by GGC, sometimes in cooperation with one of its members or partners. Some of these experts work as advisers with our centre constantly.
- Whether is Turkmenistan a member of your organisation?
- No, Turkmenistan is not included into the Global gas Centre.
- What are advantages of joining your organisation?
- The basic advantages of joining of the gas company with GGC: presence of a platform of an exchange between participants; reception of the international popularity; access to our intranet with all documents, intended only for our members; direct access to some companies, wishing to co-operate with Turkmenistan and to invest in your country.
As the chief executive of the Global Gas Centre, I am convinced that cooperation between your country and our centre will be mutually advantageous, considering position of Turkmenistan in energy sector of the Central Asian region. Therefore we, together with all members of GGC (Cheniere, DEPA, Engie, Equinor, Fluxys, Gazprom, Hanas, Lloyd's Register, Naturgy, Petrobras, Public Power Corporation, Swissgas, Tellurian, Tokyo Gas and World Energy Council) will be glad, if Turkmenistan decides to join our organisation.
Besides, members of the Global gas centre express the opinion of world gas sector.
- Have you participated in the conferences held in Turkmenistan before? What do you think of the forthcoming event?
- I have not participated in the forums organised on the Turkmen land earlier, and is glad to take part in the forthcoming conference, and to share some reasons concerning today's role of gas.
I consider that this conference is the correct tool for exchange of opinions and dialogue of experts, here there will be all possibilities for the future cooperation and steady work of projects.
- As known, soon Turkmenistan marks the 25th anniversary of permanent neutrality. Would you like to tell few words about the energy diplomacy of Turkmenistan?
- Taking an opportunity, I want to congratulate Turkmenistan on this significant date. Your country plays a key role in Central Asia and takes the main role from the point of view of geography and geopolitics. Its neutral status now, more than ever, is important for the entire region.
The purpose of foreign policy of Turkmenistan is to co-operate with all neighbours. Moreover, its power resources are the important factor of economic progress, and huge estimated stocks of natural gas can lay a way to the further development.
Routes of export of energy carriers from Turkmenistan open ample opportunities for many joint projects and, hence, for power dialogue and diplomacy. Concrete examples of how Turkmenistan strengthens the energy diplomacy, and also its firm readiness to promote peace dialogue and steady economic development with observance of the international standards, this is the building of the gas pipeline Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) which, according to all interested parties and partners, will give a powerful impulse to the economic growth in the region.
Besides, there is also a transnational gas pipeline Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan - Kazakhstan - China.
All these projects in gas and energy sectors show that Turkmenistan is the leader in the field of energy in regions of CA and Southern Caucasus, and is full of determination to promote dialogue and to promote regional and economic integration. Being in the centre of the Great Silk road, as peacemaker and advocate of ideas of energy diplomacy Turkmenistan plays a key role in the region.
