Cabinet approves India-Israel MoU to boost oil and gas sector - OUTLOOK INDIA

03 JANUARY 2018 Last Updated at 4:14 PM

New Delhi [India] - The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Israel on cooperation in the oil and gas sector.

The MoU is expected to provide an impetus to India - Israel ties in the energy sector.

The cooperation envisaged under the agreement will facilitate promotion of investments in the two countries, technology transfer, R&D, conducting joint studies, capacity building of human resources and collaboration in the area of startups.

Nicosia to host tripartite meeting with Jordan and Greece - IN CYPRUS / CYPRUS WEEKLY

Cyprus' President Anastasiades & King of Jordan Abdullah II
at a meeting in Nicosia in September 2016

May 20, 2017

Nicosia will this autumn be hosting a tripartite meeting with Jordan and Greece, Deputy Government Spokesman Viktor Papadopoulos announced on Saturday.

Papadopoulos, who is accompanying President Nicos Anastasiades on an official trip to Amman, said the meeting was decided on during the course of a meeting between Anastasiades and the King of Jordan Abdullah II .

Papadopoulos said: “the President of the Republic accepted the King of Jordan’s own invitation to attend the International Economic Forum on the Middle East And Africa, in which many people in the region, heads of state and government, as well as many entrepreneurs, investment companies, are involved, and which is also very important to us. In this margins of the meeting, the President of the Republic had a series of very important contacts. First of all, she saw Mrs Mogherini, EU Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, and analysed his proposal for a repeat of (the Conference on Cyprus in) Geneva, as he had tabled it in the afternoon.They exchanged views on the Cyprus issue and the role of the EU in the effort to resolve the Cyprus problem, so that we have a functioning state within the EU and with all the acquis to govern the solution of the Cyprus problem.“

France to support Egypt’s Energy sector with EUR 175 mn - ENTERPRISE

French President Francois Hollande (R) and his Egyptian counterpart
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Paris on 26 November, 2014 (AA)

Wednesday, 28 December 2016

France will support Egypt’s energy sector to the tune of EUR 175 mn, including EUR 150 mn for electricity and EUR 25 mn for the oil and gas sector, the International Cooperation Ministry announced. Minister Sahar Nasr reached the agreement with French Minister of State for Development and Francophonie, Jean-Marie Le Guen, during his visit to Cairo this week.