01/18/2012 19:20
The former oil minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum
"Portal Iraq," Baghdad - considered and former oil minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, Wednesday, that OPEC is facing a severe crisis of anxiety and the most serious of its kind since its inception, calling for not allowing any member of the threat and impeding navigation off oil exports Gulf and refused to use oil as a weapon to punish and refused to respond to the compensation.
Uloum said a statement issued today on the sidelines of a letter addressed to the Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC in Vienna, Abdalla Salem El-Badri and Iraqi Oil Minister President of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Baghdad, Abdul-Karim and coffee that "OPEC is facing today's crisis is the most serious of its kind since the founding of the organization of great concern, including events that could come out of the implications of what threatens its existence as an organization is not moving strongly in the defuse. "
Science and the Sea student Badri and coffee to "take responsibility for the leadership of the organization, and face challenges that require extraordinary efforts in the current difficult time, to defuse a new war in the region meant that the file is the spearhead of the oil in the spark triggered."
And take the Sea of Sciences that "the challenge for OPEC today is a challenge serious internal, expanding the size of the regional conflict and international cooperation in the Gulf region, interweaving the political files, nuclear, and meant that the oil is a flashpoint of the crisis threatening the security of the Gulf and its economics," asserting that "the leadership of OPEC today facing a difficult test and a test in its ability to maintain its oil policy, and to keep their pledges to keep the focus of energy resources for human development, not the center of fabricating a crisis and war. "
He said the Sea of Sciences that "the Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, threatening the interests of riparian States of the Gulf and their economies and displays the security of the region at risk, and pay to the tunnel, a new war in the region," likely to "display ban EU exports of Iran's oil economy at risk, especially if Saudi Arabia pledged to States compensate the consumer more to lose market Iranian oil. "
The Sea of Sciences that "OPEC to race against time to prove their ability to grasp the lead and the imposition of new assets to the rules of the game to install peace and security and take the energy of its excellence in drawing new standards and processes does not allow files of political override them and drag it into the maze of war", calling on OPEC's "Do not allow any of its members by threatening to impede navigation to the Gulf oil exports, and refused to use oil as a weapon to punish any of its members unless they receive international legitimacy, and refused any response from the members states of the compensation as a result of that. "
The Iraqi Oil Ministry, who heads the OPEC now announced, on Wednesday, January 18 now, that Iraq will be asked to Iran assurances on the protection of waterways and the extraction and export of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, as shown it can not use oil as leverage political, confirmed that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries keen on the stability of oil prices.
And the Strait of Hormuz is one of the most important waterways in the world and the most movement of ships and is located in the Persian Gulf watershed between the waters of Persian Gulf on one side and the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean on the other hand, it is the only sea port of Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, overlooking it from the north of Iran Province Bandar Abbas, on the south by the Sultanate of Oman Musandam Governorate, which oversees the maritime traffic which, as the passage of ships comes within its territorial waters and width 50 km and a depth of 60 meters, and is a conduit between a third and 40% of the oil transported by sea in the world.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest oil reserves, accompanied and followed by the Republic of Iran and then Iraq.
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