Baghdad ruled out the selection of a new Secretary of OPEC and emphasizes the possibility of increasing its stake

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Ali Aldhargam - 10/28/2012 - 2:16 pm

Baghdad ruled out that the selection of a new Secretary-General of OPEC because of the competition between Saudi Arabia and Iran at the highest management position in the organization.

OPEC has repeatedly faced difficulty in agreeing on the position of the Secretary-General and task now comes in a time when fueled tensions Western sanctions on Iran sovereign tensions within the organization.

Each of Saudi Arabia, Iran and Ecuador also nominated candidates Iraq Thamer Ghadban position to compete candidate Arabia is the largest producer in the Organization.

Anger is the largest energy adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. He served as Iraq's oil minister after the fall of the former regime in 2003.

Ghadban said in a statement seen by Buratha News "on the sidelines of a seminar held in Paris on energy he did not know whether his country would leave the organization or not, pointing out that it currently outside the expense of production quotas.

He said in another context that "Baghdad can claim to increase their share within OPEC."

Ghadban ruled that "is no agreement on the appointment of a new Secretary General of the Organization at its meeting in December (December) next, the difficulty of decision-making."

Saudi Arabia was nominated in January OPEC delegate Majid Muneef for the job. Iran has said it may offer a candidate to succeed Badri.

The Secretary-General is the chief representative of the organization in global forums and help determine production policy and is responsible for the OPEC Secretariat in Vienna.

Any decision on who will succeed Badri OPEC ministers will take in their meeting held on December 12.

This position was usually the officials from small states members of the organization for the distribution of power on the scale than Saudi Arabia, the largest producer in the Organization and Iran, which was the second product before Iraq takes place due to lower oil exports as a result of the sanctions imposed on it.

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