Secretary General of the International Energy Forum Arne Walther has expressed thanks to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for hosting the ministerial symposium on the fringes of the Third OPEC Summit in Riyadh and hosting the secretariat of the International Energy Forum. He highlighted the importance of holding the summit and the topics discussed by the ministerial symposium. Walther spoke on the initiative of the joint oil information and said, "We agreed on the importance of transparency and information availability for the security of energy."