Next week in Ashgabat, the Energy Charter Forum will discuss in detail the improvement of mechanisms for international cooperation in the energy sector and development of a multilateral framework agreement on transit of energy resources. This was stated in the speech of the Chief Adviser of the Energy Charter Secretariat, Dr. Jose Alejandro Carballo Leyda at the VIII International Gas Congress in Avaza. Within the framework of Turkmenistan's chairmanship, the Energy Charter Conference focuses on such priority areas as ensuring the multivariate nature of energy flows, expanding their geography, energy efficiency and energy saving, introducing innovations, environmental dimension and renewable energy sources, reliability and security of international transit of energy carriers on an equitable, fair basis, improving the efficiency of investments and their protection.