VOL. XXXVII

NO. 50

12-SEPTEMBER-1994

Iran

Iranian Newspaper Suggests Central Asian States Join OPEC

The Tehran daily Kayhan International suggested in an editorial on 4September that Iran and other "progressive members" of OPEC shouldinvite the oil and gas-rich republics of Central Asia to join the organizationas a means of countering western efforts to control world oil and gas productionand prices.

Identifying Russia's vast oil and gas reserves and the western technologybeing employed there as...