The forum’s 16th ministerial meeting started on Tuesday in the Qatari capital where it is headquartered.
The GECF is an intergovernmental organization that brings together the world's major natural gas producers, namely Algeria, Bolivia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Venezuela.
Kazakhstan, Iraq, the Netherlands and Norway have the observer status.
The GECF was founded in Tehran in 2001 and its member states control over 70 percent of the world's natural gas reserves as well as more than 80 percent of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) production.
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