PNN – Sergei Naryshkin, Director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), said that America is no longer able to impose its oil policies on the Middle East.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Tass, Naryshkin stated in a documentary called “Naft” that the “hegemon” is no longer able to force the countries of the Middle East to move in oil policies in line with the interests of the United States.
He stated that America can no longer dictate the price of oil against its will, adding: They cannot do this because the world is becoming multipolar. The multipolar world is crystallized in a group like OPEC+.
Some OPEC+ countries, which include OPEC and non-OPEC members including Russia and Saudi Arabia, agreed in November to cut their oil production by about 2.2 million barrels per day.
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The group recently agreed to extend oil production cuts until the end of the second quarter of 2024, which led to an increase in oil prices.
With the increase in the oil production of the United States and some other countries and the concern about the decrease in the demand for oil in some major economies, OPEC+ members have reduced and extended their production many times since the end of 2022.
Meanwhile, the West has set a price ceiling of $60 for Russian oil in response to Moscow’s attack on Ukraine. Despite these pressures, Russia believes that it emphasizes the end of the unipolar world and the beginning of the multipolar world.
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, said: “The efforts of certain countries to create a unipolar world are doomed to failure.”