Oil Minister holds meeting

Cairo, Dec. 29, INA

Iraqi Oil Minister Amir Mohammed Rasheed has met heads of the delegations participating in the OPEC meeting which started on Friday in Cairo.

Mr. Rasheed separately met Algerian Minister of energy and industry Shakeeb Khalil, Indonesian Oil Minister Yormo Boski Natoro and the Secretary-General of OPEC. During the meeting, bilateral relations and issues of common interests were discussed. Mr. Rasheed said that improvement of oil prices would increase Iraq's revenues within the oil-for-food program and would better financial situation in Iraq.