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OPEC Conference delegates at Swissotel, Quito, Ecuador, December 2010. The OPEC Conference is the supreme authority of the organisation, and consists of delegations normally headed by the oil ministers of member countries. The chief executive of the organisation is the OPEC secretary general. The conference ordinarily meets at the Vienna ...
List of OPEC secretaries general No. Name Country Tenure 1: Fuad Rouhani [A] Iran [B] 21 Jan 1961 – 30 Apr 1964 2: Abdul Rahman al-Bazzaz [A] Iraq [B] 1 May 1964 – 30 Apr 1965 3: Ashraf T. Lutfi Kuwait [B] 1 May 1965 – 31 Dec 1966 4: Mohammad Saleh Joukhdar Saudi Arabia [B] 1 Jan 1967 – 31 Dec 1967 5: Francisco R. Parra Venezuela [B]
On 9 January 1968, three of the then–most conservative Arab oil states – Kuwait, Libya, and Saudi Arabia – agreed at a conference in Beirut, Lebanon to found the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, aiming to separate the production and sale of oil from politics in the wake of the halfhearted 1967 oil embargo in response to the Six-Day War.
Saudi Arabia's oil minister says crude prices could fall as low as $50 per barrel. OPEC delegates consider this a signal that the Saudis are ready to engage in a price war.
OPEC, which controls 80% of the world's oil reserves, made that clear in a Dec. 6 letter to its members and allies rallying them to block an agreement targeting fossil fuels. The letter sparked ...
Barkindo first became one of Nigeria's delegates to OPEC ministerial conferences in 1986. In 1993, he was appointed as Nigeria's representative on the OPEC economic commission board (ECB). [4] He remained on the board until 2008, and as a delegate until 2010. From 2009 to 2010, he was the Nigerian Governor on the OPEC Board of Governors. [1]
This is a list of the current permanent representatives to the United Nations at United Nations Headquarters, New York City.The list includes the country that they represent and the date that they presented their credentials to the UN Secretary-General. [1]
He served as head or member of Egyptian delegations in numerous international conferences and meetings such as the General Conferences of IAEA, UNIDO, CTBTO, UNCTAD and the OSCE, as well as the UN General Assembly, Summits and Ministerial Meetings of the Arab League, the African Union (AU), the Islamic Conference (OIC) and OPEC.