Dr. Seyed AliMohammad Mousavi, the D-8 Secretary-General, held a meeting with Dr. Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli, Secretary-General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) on 09 March 2015 at the latter’s office in the GECF Headquarters in Doha. 

The two interlocutors held a very fruitful and effective discussion in a cordial environment. Dr. Mousavi informed the GECF Secretary-General of the latest developments taking place within the Organization and conveyed that 03 (three) Members of GECF have common membership with the D-8. He also said that the D-8 was moving towards implementation of policies in the next phase of its life cycle and undertaking common projects that would directly benefit people to improve their economic standard.

The D-8 Secretary-General also informed Dr. Adeli that Energy is one of the priority areas of the D-8 cooperation and the Organization put a lot of emphasis on energy cooperation among its Members. He mentioned that cooperation between the D-8 and the GECF may benefit Member States in designing their energy usage. 

Dr. Adeli warmly welcomed the D-8 Secretary-General to the GECF Headquarters and informed him of the GECF scope of work. Both concurred that the two Organizations had a lot of scope for joint effort in order to yield mutual benefit, sharing of information and analytical framework in particular. He viewed that within the D-8 Organization, Member States that produced energy could form joint partnership projects with Member States that consumed energy.  He appreciated the Secretary-General for the inputs and looked forward to working together in future.