Iran oil minister to attend OPEC meeting
Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi will leave Tehran for Vienna
on Tuesday to attend the 162nd ordinary meeting of the Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which will be held in Vienna on
Wednesday, Trend news agency reported.
OPEC, which pumps out 35 percent of the world's oil, may finally
decide on a new head after a vote to appoint a successor to current
Secretary-General Abdullah El-Badri was postponed in June.
Occupying its dozen members' minds this week would also be who
should replace El-Badri, who is due to retire at the end of this
year after six years as secretary-general.
On June 9, Iran called fellow OPEC members Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,
and the United Arab Emirates oil quota violators and accused them
of depressing global crude prices by over-pumping.
"It is not right that two or three countries compensate for a
country that is being sanctioned. OPEC members should not work
against each other," Iran's OPEC governor, Mohammad-Ali Khatibi was
quoted as saying at the time.
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