VOL. XLVI

No 37

15-September-2003

IRAQ

Occupied Iraq And OPEC Conference Meetings

The following article was written for MEES by Dr Fadhil J Chalabi, Executive Director, Centre for Global Energy Studies, London.

Since Iraq has been under occupation by the coalition forces, its right to attend OPEC Conference meetings has been questioned by OPEC spokesmen on the grounds that the country lacks a legitimate, internationally recognized government. For this reason, Iraq was excluded from the last OPEC...