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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) —Gulf
Arab states are leaning toward a slight in
crease in oil production to lower prices,
officials said Wednesday after a meeting
ofGulf oil ministers.
In a closing statement, the ministers
called for a stable market, but gave little
away on what position they would adopt
at next month’s meeting of the 11 -mem
ber Organization of Petroleum Export
ing Countries in Vienna.
“The ministers stressed their coun
tries’ desire to maintain the market’s sta
bility in the coming period in coopera
tion with other producing nations,” the
statement said.
The skyrocketing price of oil, which
has nearly tripled over the past year, has
led to spikes in heating oil and gas prices
in the United States and prompted calls
for the government to tap the nation’s
Strategic Petroleum Reserve. U.S. offi
cials have also lobbied OPEC and non-
OPEC countries to increase oil produc
tion to alleviate the high energy costs.
Gulf officials said Wednesday the
ministers favored an increase in produc
tion ofbetween2 million and 2.5 million
barrels a day to reach a price ofbetween
$20 and $25 a barrel. Oil for delivery in
April was trading on the New York Mer
cantile Exchange at $29.39 a barrel.
The officials, who spoke on condition
of anonymity, did not say how such an
increase should be apportioned among
OPEC and non-OPEC member states.
Officials from Saudi Arabia, which
towers over its fellow Gulf states as the
world’s largest oil exporter, said their
government favored prices at about $20
to $25 a barrel.
United Arab Emirates oil minister
Obeid bin Saif Al-Nasseri also said $20
to $25 a barrel would be acceptable.
However, Kuwait is believed to op
pose any production increase. And Iran,
the second-largest producer in OPEC, has
already come out against a rise in output.
The Saudis are scheduled to meet
March 2 with Mexico and Venezuela to
discuss whether to increase production.
Their decision is expected to influence the
OPEC meeting on March 27 in Vienna.
U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richard
son, who is touring the Middle East, said
in Cairo on Wednesday that lie would be
talking to oil officials in Saudi Arabia
and Kuwait about increasing production
to ease prices.
“We want to see oil prices go down,”
Richardson told reporters. “I am going
to Kuwait and then Saudi Arabia. These
are two nations that are very good friends
to the U.S. ... It’s going to be a friendly,
positive discussion. I’m not going there
to pressure anybody.”
His trip was prompted by U.S. con
sumer concern over soaring fuel prices.
The United States is the world’s biggest
oil importer.
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Pope visits Egypt for 1 st tin
CAIRO, Egypt (AP)— “It is a beau
tiful thing, this visit,” says Adel Abbas,
a Muslim caretaker at the old sy nagogue
in the crumbling Coptic Christian quar
ter known as Babylon, awaiting a Roman
Catholic pope.
In a fresh millennium. John Paul II
comes to holy ground to weave together
ancient threads. He arrives Thursday in
Cairo, where tradition says Joseph and
Mary brought their young son, fleeing
the wicked King Herod.
Before leaving on Saturday, he visits
Mount Sinai, where the Bible says
Moses received God’s law chiseled in
stone after escaping the pharaohs across
a magically parted Red Sea, 13 centuries
before Christianity.
The Pope in Egypt
Pope John Paul M s visit to Egypt. Feb. 24-26. is the first
of his planned pilgrimages to religious sites in the Middle
East and the first papal visit to Egypt He will meet with
the president. Coptic and Muslim leaders and visit Mount
Sinai, said to be the place where Moses received the
Ten Coriimandments.
GAZA STRIP
EGYPT
Friday, Jeb' 25 '•*"*«
Mass at Covered Halls,
Cairo's sports palace
^ Ecumenical service at
Cathedral of Our Lady of Egypt
Thursday, Feb. 24
Arrives Cairo
>- Meets with Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak
>*■ Visits head of Coptic Orthodox
Church. His Holiness Shenouda III.
Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch
of the See of St. Mark of Cairo
Visits Muslim religious leader.
His Excellency Mohammed Sayed
Tantawi, Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar
of Cairo
Saturday, Feb. 26
Celebrates private Mass.
Departs Cairo for airport of
St. Catherine in Sinai
Drives to Greek Orthodox
monastery. St. Catherine, at
the foot of Mount Sinai
Liturgical service at foot of
Mount Sinai
Returns to Cairo and
departs for Rome ^ SINAI
Source Apostolic Nunciature Washington, D C ,2000
New
AP/Wm J Gastello, S. Hoffmann
Rarely has a papal visit been so
charged with symbolic meaning. This is
Cairo, not easily' fazed. Rarely has the pon
tiffs imminent arrival caused so little stir.
“Cairo made a much bigger deal of
Hillary Clinton last year,” says Mag
gie Michael, a Copt student at the
American University in Cairo. “1 don’t
know why, but people aren’t talking
about the pope.”
Muhammed Fareq, in red coat and
shiny buttons, greeted yet another faceless
foreigner at the Conrad 1 lotel with heart-
wanning insincerity: “All ofEgypt is glad
you are here, sir.”
When asked his opinion of the pope’s
visit, however, the clued-in archetypal
doorman looked puzzled. “Who, sir?”
Workmen painted Vatican
yellow on rusted hoardings by the
stadium where the pope is to cel
ebrate Mass on Friday. But not
one banner, poster, T-shirt or cof
fee mug was spotted on a tour of
Cairo’s chaotic streets.
Deep in the Khan el-Khalili
souk, it was business as usual: a
raucous bustle of overeager mer
chants, wide-eyed tourists, under
sized beggars, bootblacks, and in
different ifwell-anned police.
Men sucked on their water
pipes at El Fishawy cafe, imper
vious to the lady offering a belly
dancing doll in flamenco dress or
the man with Barbie doll lamps
wrapped in sequin gowns tight
enough to offend any religion.
In Babylon, al the heart of
Christian Cairo, a Muslim
woman named Fathia sold her
usual gaily painted saints ami!
Clauses. She had not heard oftliis:
the pope, nor did she know hews,
ing to Cairo.
Near the stadium. Ahmed Must
21 -year-old computer progras
knew someone known as the popt
expected, and that he lived soml
in Italy. But that was it.
"I ven if they don't show it, l:
many I igypt ians are excited thaite
is coming and are eager to see in
their land,” says Kasha Solimaaaw
water expert, “ft is important b
comes in peace and security.”
It will be John Paul H’sfirstliii
Egypt.
“1 am Muslim, but I amthnlld
tliis v isit," exclaimed AmrAbbasi
behind a colorful wall of soft drint;
sale. “This will give a true image
Egypt and show the world ue»:
peace with no discriminate.'’
Nearby, a trendy young coupl
Coptic Christians, wereseed
Roman pope.
“He is coming because often;
sacre last month at el-Kusheh,
bad fee 1 ings,” says Ahmed Shafq,
salesman, expressing a widely heli
lief among Copts.
On Jan. 2, Muslim extremists
rampage shot or beat to death 23 pe:
all but two of them Christians, intk
lage of el-Kusheh, south of Cairo
the Nile. Unusual for Egypt, Coptsi
70 percent majority in the village,
Although the visit was i
shortly afterward, Coptic church ol
said the pope did not involve himsti
internal conflicts.
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