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Qatar Withdraws From OPEC

03/12/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - World Update, Qatar Withdraws From OPEC

What are the reasons behind Qatar's decision to withdraw from the oil-cartel OPEC?

Qatar has said it will leave OPEC, the organisation linking oil producing countries, and which it joined 57 years ago. Qatar's energy minister, Saad al-Kaabi, denied that geopolitics were a factor in the decision so what are the reasons?

(IMAGE: Qatar's energy minister Saad Sherida al-Kaabi announces the country's withdrawal from OPEC. CREDIT: EPA/STR)

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