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The United States is undertaking this initiative as a constructive and positive step, consistent with the publicly stated views of a number of oil producing nations which have called for a consultative relationship between producers and consumers.

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Letter to Heads of Government of Major Oil-Producing Nations Informing Them of Plans for a Meeting on International Energy...

01/09/1974

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