Alexander Novak’s talks with World Energy Council Secretary General Angela Wilkinson
Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak
held talks via videoconference with Secretary General and CEO of the World
Energy Council (WEC) Angela Wilkinson.
The talks focused on the organisation of
the 25th World Energy Congress scheduled to take place in St Petersburg on 24-27
October 2022. During the meeting, Alexander Novak and Angela Wilkinson
discussed several organisational issues related to the preparations for the
congress.
This congress, which is scheduled to
take place in Russia,
is an important event both for Russian and global energy industry. The deputy
prime minister noted that in 2022 the World Energy Council will celebrate its
100th anniversary and the congress will mark it. The event will be
held in Russia
for the first time since 1968.
“Russia, along with a number of
other countries, stood at the origins of the World Energy Council and even
today invariably continues to attach great importance to cooperation with this
respected organisation. We have received the right to hold the congress
following a vote involving over 90 member countries and we have set an
ambitious task: to organise the largest congress in history that will also
bring together several heads of state. We expect an equal or higher number of
participants compared with the previous congresses,” Alexander Novak noted.
During the talks, the deputy prime
minister discussed in detail organisational innovations introduced while
preparing for the congress. Alexander Novak noted that the composition of the
organising committee had recently been updated so that it now includes several
heads of federal executive bodies and heads of the largest Russian energy
companies; 12 working groups have been established in various areas of work and
a new head of the Russian National Committee of WEC has been appointed.
“The organising
committee will meet once a quarter; its second meeting was held in early April
where the preparations were discussed and respective instructions were issued.
An invitation campaign to the congress and registration of participants have
already started; we plan to send proposals on moderators and speakers that meet
WEC standards to the WEC Secretariat by the end of the month,” said Alexander Novak.
