Saudi Arabia satisfies demand for oil: minister

PARIS - Saudi Arabia is supplying customers with all the oil they want, Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi said here on Thursday.
He was responding to comments by US President George W. Bush on Tuesday urging Saudi Arabia to take account of high oil prices on the world economy.
Questioned during the sixth international oil summit being held here, the minister said: "I will repeat. Saudi Arabia is not responsible for the price of oil in the market."
He said: "We try to respond to our customers, we have not turned down a customer who says 'I want additional oil'."

04/21/2005 12:06 GMT