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[email protected] DUBAI KOGS13_advert_230x280.indd 1 22/01/2013 19:45 Cooperation central to stability as Ministers meet Commentary OPEC’s Oil/Energy Ministers will gather in strong today as it was when the Organization Vienna on May 31 for the 163rd Meeting of was created more than half a century ago in the Conference. They will review the state of 1960. the oil market and the world economy since In examining the outlook for the market, their last meeting on December 12, as they what will be uppermost in the minds of OPEC’s assess the outlook for the rest of this year Ministers is the need to ensure stable prices and beyond. at fair and reasonable levels in the second They will notice a downward price trend half of the year. since the winter, as well as continued volatil- They have been well briefed for the occa- ity. Indeed, OPEC’s Reference Basket price fell sion by a series of internal meetings over the for the second month in a row in April, and, past month involving, in particular, OPEC’s when this issue of the OPEC Bulletin went to Board of Governors and Economic Commission press, it was $99.15/barrel.