> >Arab Energy Ministers End Tripoli Meeting >Panafrican News Agency > >November 24, 2000 > >Tripoli, Libya > >The executive bureau of the Council of Arab energy ministers concluded a >three-day meeting in Tripoli Thursday with call for a joint Arab strategy in >the area of electrical energy. > >The tenth meeting of the bureau was attended by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, >Kuwait, Libya and a representative of the Arab league secretary general. > >The meeting decided to establish a team of experts to study > >the implementation of the connection of electrical networks in the Arab world. > >It also decided to accelerate the process of harmonising the technical >vocabulary, standards, criteria and specifications in the Arab world's >electricity sector. > >Meanwhile, the bureau called on the Arab countries that have not yet joined >the Arab electrical interconnection project to submit their applications as >soon as possible. > >The secretary of the Libyan People's General Committee, Mbarek Chamekh, urged >Arab electricity authorities to search for alternative energy sources, >including solar energy, instead of solely relying on gas and oil. > >He also urged Arab countries to consolidate links with African countries, >which have substantial energy potentials. > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Copyright © 2000 Panafrican News Agency. Distributed by >allAfrica.com. For information about the content or for permission to >redistribute, publish or use for broadcast, contact the publisher. _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
