Israel hails 1st ever regional gas forum in Egypt

Описание: (14 Jan 2019) Egypt has hosted its first ever regional gas forum with several government delegations attending including the Israeli Energy Minister, in the first such official visit since its 2011 Arab Spring uprising.
Speaking on Monday after attending the closed meeting in Cairo, Yuval Steinitz applauded the Egyptian initiative, saying that the discovery of gas in the Eastern Mediterranean and the establishment of an organisation to coordinate its management was helping to bring countries together.
"The discovery of significant gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean has also political value, because it brings all of us - Jordan, Israel, Cyprus, Greece, Egypt, the Palestinian Authority and Italy - together," he said.
In a recent sign of warming ties between the former enemies, Israel will begin exporting gas to Egypt in two to three months as part of a 15 billion US dollar corporate deal signed last year, he said.
The first batches will be from the Tamar field and, within ten months, the Leviathan field which will open later this year.

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