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Kuwait to support Opec consensus on output rise

KUWAIT: Kuwait's influential foreign minister was quoted on Sunday as saying his country would support any consensus within OPEC to raise the group's output.

Kuwait was also not eager to see oil prices at $30-35 a barrel, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah told al-Watan newspaper. "It is not in Kuwait's interest for the price of the barrel to reach between $30 and $35," said Sheikh Sabah, who is also first deputy prime minister and heads the country's highest oil policy decision-making body - the Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC).-Reuters