Chinese oil companies already have interests in Niger, while Libya is looking for external partners as it opens up its energy sector to foreign investment.
"Despite the slowdown, the services sector has shown more resilience to worsening external conditions than agriculture and industry, " the ministry's report says.
And in late January Paolo Scaroni, CEO of Italian energy corporation Eni SpA, told the Associated Press that his firm will continue to fulfill its contractual obligations in Iran and feels no external pressure to sever ties with Iran's energy sector.
"The authorities' programme is intended to support Ukraine's return to economic and financial stability, by addressing financial sector liquidity and solvency problems, by smoothing the adjustment to large external shocks and by reducing inflation, " said Mr Strauss-Kahn.