SERGEI LAVROV: ACHIEVEMENT OF ENERGY SECURITY REQUIRES JOINT ACTIONS OF ALL PARTICIPANTS OF MARKET

Noyan Tapan
Jun 07 2006

YEREVAN, JUNE 7, NOYAN TAPAN. Achievement of energy security requires
joint actions of all participants of the energy market. This was
mentioned in the address of current BSEC Chairman, RF Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov to the participants of the 27th plenary session of
BSEC PA.

According to him, issues of providing energy security were by right
put to the center of discussion in the coming session of BSEC PA. The
same subject in the global context will be one of the main themes at
the forthcoming summit of the Big Eight in Saint Petersburg. According
to Lavrov, energy security can be a safe guarantee against destructive
competition for energy resources and a pledge of stable development
of world economics.

“Russia on its part fully fulfils all commitments assumed by it,
concerning energy supply of its partners, strives for creating a
system of energy security, which takes into account the interests
of all states, both consumers and suppliers of energy resources,”
RF Foreign Minister’s address read.

Lavrov mentioned that other issues vitally important for the states
of the Black Sea region are also on the agenda: fighting economic
crime, raising the role of the civil society in promotion of economic
cooperation, dialogue of cultures in interests of deepening trust
between peoples.