VOL. XXXVI

NO. 25

22-MARCH-1993

OPEC

Baghli DeniesKuwait Contemplating Withdrawal from OPEC

Mr. 'Ali al-Baghli, the Kuwaiti Oil Minister, has categorically denied that Kuwait is contemplatingwithdrawal from OPEC because of the reduction in its OPEC quota. "It is noton the agenda. It is not even a subject under discussion," he said on 16March during a parliamentary discussion. The idea that Kuwait would withdrawfrom OPEC was raised on 10 March when Mr. Isma'il al-Shati, chairman of theparliament's...