Trump Says OPEC Must Stop Raising Prices, Contribute To Own Military Protection

Trump Says OPEC Must Stop Raising Prices, Contribute to Own Military Protection

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday during his address to the United Nations General Assembly that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its member countries must lower oil prices and start contributing financially to their own defense.

UNITED NATIONS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 25th September, 2018) US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday during his address to the United Nations General Assembly that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its member countries must lower oil prices and start contributing financially to their own defense.

"OPEC and OPEC nations are, as usual, ripping off the rest of the world and I don't like it, nobody should like it," Trump said. "We want them to stop raising prices, we want them to start lowering prices, and they must contribute substantially to military protection from now on."