VOL. XXXIV

NO. 39

1-JULY-1991

US Dissent Casts Shadow Over Paris Dialogue Meeting

The producer-consumer ministerial seminar in Paris on 1 and 2 July looks likegetting off to a bad start, with Washington's failure to participate signallingits continued opposition to a global energy dialogue. The meeting, which issponsored by France and Venezuela, was originally planned to be the formalopening of a dialogue between oil-producing and oil-consuming countries for thepurpose of establishing long-term...