Jordan is determined to further strengthen its ties with the Energy Charter Secretariat to work closely towards full membership in the European Energy Charter (EEC), local daily Jordan Times reported Thursday.
Jordanian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Suhair Al-Ali Wednesday received visiting Ambassador Andre Mernier, Secretary General of the EEC Secretariat and an accompanying delegation in Amman, the report said.
Al-Ali stressed the importance Jordan attaches to strengthening relations with the EEC at the current stage, in the light of the challenges it faces in the energy sector.
Full membership will allow Jordan, currently an observer of the EEC, to develop its cooperation with member countries in numerous areas, such as promoting joint investments, developing energy resources including renewable and alternative energy sources, energy efficiency, technology transfer and encouraging innovation, according the minister.
Mernier, for his part, expressed his full understanding of the challenges facing Jordan in the energy sector.
He reiterated he would do his utmost to enable Jordan to get full membership in the charter, stressing the importance of progress in relation to audit and examining the compatibility between existing legislation and those applicable to member states.
The European Energy Charter Treaty, which was signed in December 1994 and entered into legal force in April 1998, is an international agreement originally based on integrating the energy sectors of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War into the broader European and world markets.
According to its website, the EEC now has 52 members, and another 20 states and 10 organizations have joined as observers.
Source: Xinhua
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