VOL. XLVI

No 49

8-December-2003

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi SPC Reconstituted For Another Four-Year Term

A Royal Edict issued on 29 November announced the reconstitution of Saudi Arabias Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC) for another four-year term. The SPC was created in January 2000 (MEES, 10 January 2000). There is one newcomer to the new SPC, Water and Electricity Minister Ghazi al-Qusaibi, while Abd al-Aziz al-Rashid (an auditor and former Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Finance) is excluded from the...