VOL. XXXIII

NO. 30

30 APRIL 1990

OPEC Still Trying to Orchestrate Production Cuts As 2 May Deadline Looms

As time grows short in the run-up to OPEC's Ministerial Monitoring Committeeget-together in Geneva on 2 May, it is beginning to look a trifle uncertainwhether the member countries will succeed in their objective to have the broadlines of an agreement on a temporary production cutback in place before themeeting starts.

An intensive program of phone contacts between the OPEC Ministers, designed...