BRUSSELS, March 12 (KUNA) -- EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger will deliver a speech Tuesday and present the EU's energy policy at the 13th International Energy Forum (IEF), to kick off in Kuwait tomorrow.

An EU energy spokesperson told KUNA in Brussels today that Oettinger will underline the EU attractiveness for investments in the energy sector, and is a large and ever-better integrated market for international suppliers of energy.

He will also take the opportunity to stress the EU's commitment to global transparent oil markets.

On the sideline of the forum, he will also have bilateral talks with with IEF Secretary General, Energy Ministers of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and UAE. Furthermore, he will meet his counterparts from Algeria and Turkey, noted the spokesperson.

Through the Forum and its associated events, IEF Ministers, their officials, energy and industry executives, and other experts will engage in a dialogue of increasing importance to global energy security.

The IEF and the global energy dialogue are promoted by a permanent Secretariat of international staff based in the Diplomatic Quarter of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

This year's IEF mainly concentrates on how to meet future energy demand, energy markets and its mitigating volatility, how to achieve environmental and social sustainability and how to boost the Global Energy Dialogue.