OREANDA-NEWS. On January 29, 2009 Among the number of world leaders participating at the working breakfast specially organized for President Nursultan Nazarbayev were 30 leaders of the foremost companies from around the world, including Chairman of the Board of Directors of Total Thierry Desmarest, Chairman of the Soros Fund Management George Soros, Chief Executive Officer of the Severstal Alexei Mordashev, Chief Executive of the Royal Dutch Shell Jorma Ollila, Vice Chairman of the Barclays Capital Mark Holtsman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the ArcellorMittal Lakshmi Mittal and the famous American economist Michael Porter, reported the Official website www.akorda.kz.

During the informal meeting, the participants discussed the current economic situation in the world economy and expressed their vision on ways out of the global crisis. President Nursultan Nazarbayev pointed out that despite the current crisis, we need to consider the prospects which we will face in the post-crisis period and called for the world business leaders to actively collaborate with our country.

The same day, President Nursultan Nazarbayev took part in the Energy Summit Session “Geo-Policy of Oil and Gas Is a Transitional World Map”. Among the participants of the session were President of Azerbaijan Ilkham Aliyev, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, OPEC Secretary General Abdalla El-Badri, Executive Director of the IAEA Nobua Tanaka, and core ministers from different countries and leaders of the world foremost energy companies.

The participants of the meeting discussed the perspectives of the development of the world energy market, and the effects of the geopolitical situation and the global economic crisis on it.

In his address the head of state emphasized the need for creating universal mechanisms of dialogue in the sphere of global energy security.