The 133rd (Extraordinary) Meeting of the Conference of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) convened in Cairo, Egypt, on 10 December 2004, under the Chairmanship of its President, HE Dr. Purnomo Yusgiantoro, Minister of Energy & Mineral Resources of Indonesia and Head of its Delegation, and its Alternate President, HE Sheikh Ahmad Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Minister of Energy of the State of Kuwait and Head of its Delegation.



OPEC is an international Organization of eleven developing countries which are heavily reliant on oil revenues as their main source of income. Membership is open to any country which is a substantial net exporter of oil and which shares the ideals of the Organization. The current Members are Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.





The Conference expressed its sincere gratitude to HE Mohammed Hosni Mubarak, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, as well as the Government and people of the Arab Republic of Egypt for having hosted the Meeting and for the friendly welcome extended to the Conference and all Delegates. In addition, the Conference recorded its special thanks to HE Sameh Fahmy, Minister of Petroleum of Egypt, and his Staff for their warm hospitality and the excellent arrangements made for the Meeting.

The Conference reiterated that its next Ordinary Meeting will be held on 16 March 2005, in Isfahan, I.R. Iran.