VOL. XLII

No. 03

18-January-1999

KUWAIT

Oil Producers Have No Choice But To Cooperate With Foreign Companies, Says Kuwaiti Official

"The current economic conditions of the oil producing states leave them with limited and difficult choices on how to develop their oil potential. The available alternatives are either to withdraw into themselves and accept worsening economic austerity or to try to find new ways to develop their oil wealth, so that the population can continue to retain the present...