Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 16
Trend:
Oil ministers of Venezuela, Iran and Iraq plan to discuss the proposal about freezing the oil output agreed in Doha, a source in Iran's Oil Ministry told Sputnik news agency.
The proposal will be put forward during the trilateral meeting to be held in Tehran Feb.17, according to the source.
Earlier, following the talks in Doha, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Venezuela expressed readiness to freeze the oil production at January levels as long as others follow the suit.
Iran didn't participate in that meeting.
Earlier, Iran's acting deputy oil minister Masoud Hashemian Esfahani said that Tehran calls for wide cooperation to achieve high oil prices and will try to reach this goal by various means.
Edited by SI