VIENNA, Sept 16: Iraq will attend the next OPEC meeting of ministers in Vienna on Sept 24, a spokesman for the cartel said on Tuesday, marking a return to business for the country that has 11 percent of the world’s oil.

OPEC spokesman Omar Ibrahim said the new Iraqi oil minister Ibrahim Mohammad Bahr al-Uloom had accepted an invitation to the meeting in Vienna.

“We have invited the Iraqi minister ... they are coming,” he said.

The Nicosia-based Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) published a statement from the Iraqi oil ministry confirming that Bahr al-Uloom would attend the meeting, accompanied by “senior members of the ministry.”—AFP