U.S. arms sales to OPEC at risk over oil: senators (Reuters)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Thu, 04/24/2008 - 8:11am

A police officer stands guard on the rooftop of Vienna's OPEC headquarters before the start of a meeting of OPEC oil ministers in Vienna September 11, 2006.<br /><br />(Leonhard Foeger/Reuters)Reuters - A group of U.S. senators on Thursday will call on the Bush administration to use its leverage with OPEC to increase oil supplies or risk Congress holding up multimillion dollar arms deals with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other members of the oil producing group.




 

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