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addition, a decision on whether to hold a standalone gathering
of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries as
proposed by Venezuela has yet to be taken, the delegates said,
but a number of countries have responded coolly to the idea.
OPEC delegates said last week a gathering of OPEC and non-OPEC
oil officials could take place in February or March, perhaps at
an expert rather than ministerial level.
"It is all in the hands of the Russians now," an OPEC delegate
said.
Last Wednesday, the head of Russia's pipeline monopoly said
Russian officials had decided they should talk to Saudi Arabia
and other OPEC countries about output cuts, remarks that helped
spur a rally in oil prices.
(Reporting by Alex Lawler and Rania El Gamal in Dubai; editing
by David Evans)
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