TEHRAN - Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh will not take part in the oil producers’ summit Sunday in Doha, Qatar, due to some pre-planned programs, said the oil ministry’s public relations director Akbar Ne’matollahi.

Members from OPEC and other main oil producers are due to gather together to discuss stabilizing oil prices by freezing production, the event has been called by some analysts as “the most important meeting of the last three decades.”

“Zanganeh has previously discussed Iran’s positions with the meeting’s ministers in previous bilateral and multi-lateral meetings and has briefed all of them that the Islamic Republic does not plan to sign Doha’s meeting agreement,” the IRNA news agency quoted Ne’matollahi as saying. 

Iran’s OPEC Governor Hossein Kazempour-Ardebili will represent the country to this meeting, Ne’matollahi noted.

He emphasized that Iran will hail and back the meeting’s decisions on the way to re-stabilize the international oil market.

Tehran has said it wouldn’t freeze oil production until the country reached a pre-sanctions output level of four million barrels per day from the current 2.8 million barrels. 

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