For the first time GECF condemns the sanctions against gas companies.

The condemnation of sanctions against gas companies, which was contained in the Declaration of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, signed following the meeting of GECF in Tehran, was an extremely important point, the RF Minister of Energy Aleksandr Novak told the reporters.

The common position of the participating organizations on the issue of sanctions had been marked for the first time, Novak stated. According to him, it is a declaration of disagreement with sanctions policy in the gas sector, as well as with the use of discriminatory laws by individual countries outside the territories to enact such laws.