On 21 May 2019 Energy Charter Secretary-General Dr Urban Rusnák was in Reykjavik, Iceland, to meet with federal government officials. Dr Rusnák met with Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir, the Minister of Tourism, Industry and Innovation. He also met with the Energy Ambassador from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
As of 1 January 2019, Albania assumed the Chairmanship of the Energy Charter Conference for the year. The Conference works on an annually rotating basis, and each year a new country takes over leadership to direct the highest decision-making body of the Energy Charter process.
A delegation of officials from the Energy Charter Secretariat (Expansion and Investment Units) conducted a working visit to Benin on 9-10 May 2019 at the invitation of Benin’s Ministry of Energy. Benin recently decided to accede to the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) by embarking on the accession reports phase. Productive meetings were held in Cotonou with government officials from different agencies...
Upon the invitation of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Energy Charter Secretariat participated in the international conference Power Uzbekistan 2019 on 16 May 2019 in Tashkent. The conference was part of the larger International Exhibition; Energy, energy saving, nuclear energy, alternative and energy sources.
