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Ashgabat hosts international conference on global energy security
The International High Level Conference on the Reliable and Stable Transit of Energy and Its Role in Ensuring Sustainable Development and International Cooperation held by the Government of Turkmenistan under the UN aegis took place in Ashgabat on April 23-24 2009
Heads of government and energy structures from dozens of countries, representatives of influential international and regional organizations, first of all UN, OSCE, Energy Charter, ECO,SOC, CIS as well as heads of over 100 major foreign oil and gas and service companies participated in the conference.
VIKING 08 - Advanced Technology supports the Exercise
VIKING 08 is a multinational and multifunctional Exercise in the Spirit of Partnership for Peace.
The exercise was executed 03-14 November 2008.
This Exercise is the fifth in the VIKING Exercise series which started in 1999.
In VIKING 08 the scenario was based on a peacekeeping operation and, with both military and civil parties involved, questions of gender and diversity form an important part of the exercise.
