OPEC AND OIL PRICES

Dates Set for Meeting of OPEC Policy Committee

MEES learns that it has now been decided that OPEC experts will meet in Vienna on 27 January to prepare the ground for the first session of the new special ministerial committee which is to examine OPEC policy options. The ministerial committee - composed of the Oil Ministers of Venezuela (chairman), Indonesia, Iraq, Kuwait and the UAE - is scheduled to convene its meeting in Vienna on 3 February. Last month's OPEC...