"The EU Energy Walk, it’s like an Egyptian Author: Kostis Geropoulos 2 November 2007 - Issue : 754
In an era of rising petroleum prices and excessive oil and gas dependence on Russia, North African energy resources are drawing fresh interest from Brussels. In the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, top EU officials met key energy players on November 1 in a bid to increase dialogue between the Mediterranean area, the Gulf countries and the sub-Saharan African countries.
“A lot of resources in sub-Sahara Africa are untapped and if they can be tapped, produced and exported they would be a source of revenue for a lot of countries so there is an interest on all sides to develop these kind of partnerships out of the quirks of the Mediterranean-Gulf country relationships and thinking of other producers of energy,” Christiane Hohmann, spokesperson for External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, told New Europe telephonically, a day after attending the energy conference in Egypt."
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