VOL. XXXIV

NO. 29

22 APRIL 1991

Iraq

Iraq Challenges Legality of August 1990 OPEC Decision on Temporary Suspension of Quotas

MEES understands that the IraqiGovernment recently sent an official protest to OPEC, which has been circulatedto all member governments, claiming that the decision taken by OPEC at its 29August 1990 meeting in Vienna to suspend production quota restrictions on atemporary basis was invalid. The Iraqi protest, which was signed by Iraq'sActing Oil Minister, Mr. Husain Kamil,...