VOL. XXXVI

NO. 29

19 APRIL 1993

Muscat Meeting Defuses Inter-OPEC Tension Over March Production ButUnderlying Problems Remain

MEES Editor Ian Seymour Reports from Muscat.

The informal meeting of OPEC's Ministerial Monitoring Committee (MMC), heldin Muscat, Oman, on 12 April on the eve of the conference of OPEC and non-OPECoil exporters, registered an important success by effectively defusing apotential row about over-quota output in March which at one time looked as if itmight derail the current...