Naimi said. For his part, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Assistant Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources for Petroleum Affairs, said the number of countries who signed today's charter amounted to 87 with four to five additional countries have applied for membership. A member country who falls short of settling its financial share in the International Energy Forum (IEF) will not be eligible to vote or run as candidate to the membership of any committee or program of the IEF. If two years passed on such situation, the member country would lose its membership in the IEF but will have the right to apply anew. --More
