OREANDA-NEWS. On February 25-26, 2008 National Forum on Oil and Gas Development was held in Accra, Ghana. By the invitation of Ghanaian government Shahmar Movsumov, Executive Director of the State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan participated at the meeting, reported the press-centre of SOFAZ.

Sh. Movsumov briefed on Azerbaijan’s successful oil strategy, the Fund’s activities, as well as projects financed by the Fund. He talked about SOFAZ’s leading role in implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and Azerbaijan’s activities at the international EITI Board.

The participants displayed interest in the successful oil strategy of Azerbaijan and asked many questions.