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Yamni, a 1960 graduate of the Law School, made his comments before more than 650 spectators at a symposium entitled "Oil Markets: Past, Present and Future--Personal Reflections of His Excellency Ahmed Zaki Yamani...
...minister of one of the most powerful OPEC nations, Yamani said pricing by oil producers based only on short-term supply and demand trends led to the dramatic fall in petroleum prices from more than $30 per barrel in 1980 to a low of $9 in July...
Speaking at a Kennedy School of Government symposium, Sheik Ahmed Z. Yamani urged all oil-producing nations to prevent fluctuations in world oil prices by establishing a collective price structure based on the long-term equilibrium between supply and demand...
...Yamani said that his comments would anger some of his peers but that a majority of OPEC members were coming around to his thinking...
Criticizing the call for import restrictions, Yamani warned that such pressures could "lead to trade wars and spell the end of free trade practices...