OPEC’s 60th anniversary celebrations have been postponed in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. OPEC’s 60th anniversary celebrations have been postponed in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The celebrations were originally scheduled to take place this month in Baghdad, where OPEC was originally founded. In addition to its 60th anniversary, this September also marks the 55th year since organization’s secretariat moved to the Austrian capital of Vienna. In a letter send to OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, Iraq’s oil minister and head of the country’s delegation to OPEC, Ihsan Abdul Jabbar Ismaael, said the development was “genuinely disappointing”. The minister emphasized in the letter, however, that the health and safety of all are “of utmost importance”. “It is very unfortunate that we are unable to mark OPEC’s diamond anniversary in September at the same site where the historic ‘Baghdad Conference’ was held between 10 and 14 September […]