Latin American states will participate at the highest level in the Gas Exporting Countries Forum meeting in Tehran, an Oil Ministry official said.
Deputy Oil Minister for International and Commercial Affairs Amir Hossein Zamani-Nia said that in a meeting with the Foreign Minister of Trinidad and Tabago Winston Dookeran on Tuesday, he extended an invitation from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for his counterpart to take part in the event, IRNA reported.
According to the official, the foreign minister said his president is to attend the meeting.
Zamani-Nia had earlier said that presidents of Bolivia and Peru will also attend the summit in Iran.
He said that Trinidad and Tobago and Bolivia will take part in the event as main members of the GECF while Peru will participate as observer state in the Third Conference of Gas Exporting Countries Forum.
The Third Summit Conference of the GECF is scheduled to be held in Tehran in late November 2015.
The deputy oil minister said that Holland will be the second observer state to participate in the GECF Tehran Summit.
Oil Ministry has announced that invitations have been sent to ten gas exporting countries and the rest will be forwarded in the upcoming week.
Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) is a gathering of the world's leading gas producers which was set up as an international governmental organization with the objective of increasing the level of coordination and strengthening the collaboration among Member countries.
Member countries of the Forum are: Algeria, Bolivia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela. Iraq, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Norway, Oman and Peru are the Observer Members.
With the current number of members, the GECF has a strong position on the world gas market and among international energy organizations. Its potential rests on the enormous natural gas reserves in member countries which together hold 67 percent of the world's proven natural gas reserves.