VOL. XXXI

NO. 30

2-MAY-1988

OPEC

USSR Will not Cut Oil Output

The Soviet Union does not intend to join in efforts to stabilize oil pricesby cutting output, even if other OPEC and non-OPEC producers agree to do so attheir current meeting in Vienna, according to a spokesman for the Oil Ministryin Moscow. In a telephone interview with Reuter on 28 April, Mr. Valery Vorobyovsaid that "we are not a member of OPEC and we are not at the meeting inVienna," and that therefore "if there is an agreement to...