Syria, Egypt, Turkey joint energy Project

Syrian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ibrahim Haddad on Sunday agreed with Egyptian Minister of Oil Samih Fahmi and Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Hilmi Guler on studying a three-way project to exploit phosphate available on the Syrian-Turkish border areas.

The three ministers also agreed in a Cairo meeting to set up a common working group to study the economic feasibility of the project, followed by a visit by an Egyptian team to Syria and Turkey to discuss the technical details.