Brown to attend Jeddah oil-price talks

Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday he would attend top level talks between oil producers and consumers in Saudi Arabia on June 22 to discuss growing concerns over record-high oil prices.

“I will travel to Jeddah in order to work on it with (Saudi) King Abdullah,” Brown told a news conference in London.

“I proposed to the king that if necessary I will be happy to convene a follow-up summit at heads of government level and have offered London as a venue,” he added.

US energy secretary Samuel Bodman was to represent Washington at the Jeddah meeting.

AFP