OPEC AT TWENTY-FIVE: STABILITY THROUGH COOPERATION

(There follows the text of the press release issued by the OPEC Secretariat in Vienna on 14 September 1985, on the occasion of the Organization's 25th anniversary.)

Today, the organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is 25 years old. The prime objectives of the Organization were not only to defend the legitimate rights of its members vis-a-vis the then dominating multinational oil companies, but also to influence oil...