Wednesday 15 September 2010

Opec’s 50th birthday party: not so easy | beyondbrics | FT.com

How does an ill-fitting family spanning the Wahhabi state of Saudi Arabia and revolutionary Venezuela celebrate its 50th anniversary, which fell on Tuesday?

Well, no-one is saying the party-planning for the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, founded in Baghdad in 1960, has been easy.

The Iraqi government had apparently hoped to host a symposium to mark the 50-year celebrations, which for logistics reasons were to take place after the next scheduled Opec meeting in Vienna next month.

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