Organization
OAPEC
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, whose members announced the cut in oil output in October 1973.
- Also known as
- Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
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- Q1052077
Connections 3
involved in
- End of the embargo, March 1974 Primary record 1
- Arab oil ministers’ meeting in Kuwait, 1973 announced the cut Primary record 2
- 1973 oil embargo instituted the embargo, according to the Federal Reserve’s history Scholarship & press 3
Proof 3 sources
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Transcript of a Telephone Conversation Between Secretary of State Kissinger and President Nixon, Washington, 18 March 1974 (FRUS 1969–1976, vol. XXXVI, doc. 339), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 18 Mar 1974.
Primary record
the OAPEC meeting in Vienna decided to lift the embargo on the United States
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Editorial Note on the Arab oil cutback of 17 October 1973 (FRUS 1969–1976, vol. XXV, doc. 200), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian.
Primary record
the 11 members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced an immediate cutback of oil production by 5 percent
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Oil Shock of 1973–74 (Federal Reserve History), Federal Reserve History, 22 Nov 2013.
Scholarship & press
On October 19, 1973, immediately following President Nixon's request for Congress to make available $2.2 billion in emergency aid to Israel for the conflict known as the Yom Kippur War, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) instituted an oil embargo on the United States
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- Add The Oil Weapon: the 1973 oil embargo, from OPEC's founding to the Strategic Petroleum Reserveb19881d
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