VOL. XLI

No. 42

19-October-1998

KUWAIT

Kuwaiti Oil Minister Calls OPEC Jakarta Meeting A "Disaster"

The Kuwaiti Oil Minister, Shaikh Sa'udNasir al-Sabah, has described the November 1997 OPEC conference in Jakarta as a"disaster," categorizing what happened there as "the worst ever in thehistory of the Organization." Shaikh Sa'ud, in aspeech to the Kuwaiti Graduate Society on 13 October, also warned that Kuwait and the restof the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries will not accept to shoulder...