[Marxism] A worthless piece of paper

[Lüko Willms]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:17:46 -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:

> His comments at the end of a rare summit of OPEC heads 
> of state exposed fissures within the 13-member cartel 

  why can't the those journalists not their facts right? Well, even OPEC 
has them wrong in their information kit on the Riadh conference. OPEC 
has currently 12 members. 

  14 countries had joined OPEC up to now:

 http://www.opec.org/aboutus/
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[OPEC was] created at the Baghdad Conference on September 10û14, 1960, 
by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

The five Founding Members were later joined by nine other Members: Qatar 
(1961); Indonesia (1962); Socialist Peoples Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 
(1962); United Arab Emirates (1967); Algeria (1969); Nigeria (1971); 
Ecuador (1973-1992); Gabon (1975-1994) and Angola (2007).

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  Five plus nine makes fourteen, but Ecuador suspended its membership 
with effect from 31 december 1992, and Gabon ended its membership with 
effect from 1st january 1995. That makes 12 member countries. The press 
pack on this year's conference got it also wrong, they listed only 11, 
forgetting about Angola's accession on Janary 1st 2007. But there is a 
page on Angola in it, unfortunately with a not really well done photo of 
Desiderio Costa, the long time minister resp. vice-minister responsible 
for Angola's oil industry. 


Comradely yours, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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