VOL. XXXIX

No. 20

12-February-1996

OPEC

Can OPEC Handle A Resumption Of Iraqi Oil Exports?

As talks between the UN and Iraq get underway in New York regarding the implementation of Security Council resolution 986 on limited Iraqi oil sales, MEES Editor Ian Seymour examines whether OPEC is in adequate shape to handle Iraq's return to the market after an absence of five and a half years.

Although the root of OPEC's present uncomfortable predicament is the fact that it is trapped in a...