September 24, 2003
OPEC postpones election of a
New Secretary-General
(Reuters, OPEC News) - OPEC
oil ministers agreed on Wednesday to postpone
the election of a new Secretary-General for the
group until their next meeting on December 4,
OPEC delegates said.
The
man at the helm of the cartel, former Venezuelan
oil minister Alvaro Silva, will continue in his
post, they said. Two new candidates for the position
had been put forward: former Iranian envoy to
the United Nations Hadi Hosseinian and Kuwait
economist and OPEC Director of research Adnan
Shihab-Eldin.
