Iraq chairs the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting

Baghdad-INA  
The Ministry of Oil announced that Iraq will preside, today, Monday, over the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries at the level of delegates.
 
The ministry said, in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "the Council of Ministers of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries - OAPEC - held its 110th meeting at the level of representatives of oil and energy ministers in the member states of the State of Kuwait, headed by Naseer Aziz Jabbar, representative of the Republic of Iraq in the Executive office of the organization, which presides over the current session of the Council.
 
The ministry added, "Members of the executive office of the organization discussed a set of topics on the council's agenda related to the work and activity of the organization, including:
 
- Approval of the final accounts of the organization for the year 2022.
 
- Developing and restructuring the work of the organization, while developing its activities and reviewing the systems and laws that govern its work, in a way that is compatible with the challenges and emerging developments in the field of energy.
 
The preparations for the Twelfth Arab Energy Conference, to be held in the State of Qatar on December 11 and 12, 2023, at the kind invitation of Saad bin Sherida Al Kaabi, Minister of State for Energy Affairs, Managing Director and CEO of Qatar Energy.
 
- The OAPEC Award for Scientific Research, which is awarded every two years and its field for the year 2022 is "Decarbonization Technologies in the Petroleum Industry and Circular Economy".
 
- The report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the General Secretariat represented in the preparation of economic and technical studies, follow-up reports on the global petroleum situation, environmental affairs and climate change, the progress of work in the data bank, and the activities organized by the General Secretariat, in which it participated and which it will organize during the year 2023.
 
According to the ststement "a number of relevant ministerial decisions were issued by this meeting regarding some of the topics on its agenda, so that the general secretariat of the organization would put those decisions into actual implementation."
 
The ministry confirmed that "the council concluded its meeting by expressing its thanks and appreciation to the State of Kuwait for hosting this meeting, and to the General Secretariat of the organization for the good organization and preparation for it."