One can see why Ali Naimi, the Saudi oil minister, says this week’s meeting of the Organisation of Pet-roleum Exporting Countries was one of the worst ever. Opec was created to co-ordinate res-traints on oil production to keep prices high. But not only did the cartel, not for the first time,?fail?to agree new output quotas; what its leading members unsuccessfully aimed for was to expand, not restrain, output.
沙特石油部長阿里?納伊米(Ali Naimi)之所以說石油輸出國組織（OPEC，簡稱歐佩克）上周召開的會議是有史以來最糟的一次，原因不難看出。歐佩克創立的宗旨是協同限制石油產量，以使價格維持在高位。然而，該卡特爾不僅未能就新產量配額達成共識（這不是第一回），而且，其主要成員國所謀求的是擴大、而非限制生產，只是未獲成功。
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