VOL. XXXI

NO. 43

1-AUGUST-1988

NO CONCESSIONS FORTHCOMING FROM UAE ON PRODUCTION ISSUE

Even at this advanced date, it is still very far from clear what, ifanything, of a concrete nature can be accomplished at the forthcoming meeting ofOPEC's five-member price monitoring committee which is scheduled to convene, inwhat is expected to be a brief one-day session, on 3 August in Lausanne,Switzerland.

Whatever the official agenda of the meeting, which will obviously encompassa routine examination of...