A meeting of energy ministers of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations plus China, Japan and Korea (ASEAN+3) is due to open here in Myanmar's second largest city of Mandalay later on Wednesday.
The ASEAN+3 Ministers on Energy Meeting (AMEM+3), which is the sixth of its kind, is the first hosted by Myanmar.
The meeting came after the ASEAN+3 Senior Officials Meeting on Energy held on Tuesday. The 3rd East Asia Summit Energy Ministers Meeting (EAS-EMM) will be followed on the same day.
ASEAN has consented work on plans for building oil reserve system in the region to cope with increasing demand for oil in the Asian region and rising prices of oil in the future.
A working level talks of ASEAN will also take place with the three East Asian countries to work out their respective countries' plan to build up oil reserves.
The 5th AMEM+3 meeting was held in Thailand's Bangkok in August last year.