99-29017. Office of International Affairs; U.S.-Africa Energy Ministers Conference

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 214 (Friday, November 5, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 60435]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29017]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Office of International Affairs; U.S.-Africa Energy Ministers 
Conference

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of upcoming conference.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy and the City of Tucson, Arizona 
will co-sponsor the U.S.-Africa Energy Ministers Conference: A 
Partnership for the 21st Century, in Tucson, Arizona. The focus of the 
three-day Conference will be in the creation of a positive environment 
for investment in Africa's energy infrastructure, creating new markets 
for oil and gas development and promoting technologies that will foster 
economic development and engineering growth in a way which protects 
Africa's environment for the 21st century.

DATES: The three-day conference will be held from December 13-15, 1999.
    Attendees: Approximately 600 participants are expected to attend 
the event, including African energy ministers, international 
organizations, private sector representatives, regional African 
organizations and academic institutions.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information and to 
register on line, please visit our website on www.africaenergy.org. You 
may also contact Soma Martin, a representative with SOBRAN Inc., on 
703-352-9511, for further information regarding the conference. For 
inquiries regarding exhibits for industry displays, please contact Mary 
Okoye in Tucson, Arizona by telephone on 520-791-4204, or by email at 
[e-mail].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting will be the first continent-wide 
gathering of Africa energy ministers. Initial plans for the conference 
were announced in April as part of Secretary of Energy Richardson's 
Africa Energy Initiative following President Clinton's U.S.-Africa 
Partnership to promote democracy, good governance, human rights, trade 
and investment, and global integration.

    Issued in Washington, D.C. on November 1, 1999.
David L. Goldwyn,
Assistant Secretary for International Affairs.
[FR Doc. 99-29017 Filed 11-4-99; 8:45 am]
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