Asian states agree to pool energy assets

Asian countries, including central Asian republics, China and Russia, on Tuesday agreed to pool their vast energy resources and enhance regional cooperation by uniting financial resources and technical expertise to counter a looming energy crisis in the world.

They also jointly asked the United States not to follow destructive policies in different regions of the world for its own energy security and stressed that Asian countries comprised energy producers as well as consumers and should cooperate with each other for economic benefits.

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