Iran 's Oil Ministry quashed reports that the country's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would attend the June meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, according to the official state news agency Irna Monday.

An Oil Ministry official told the agency that in a meeting between himself and Ahmadinejad, the president said he wouldn't attend the next OPEC meeting and would instead send a cabinet minister of his choice to attend both the OPEC gathering as well as the forthcoming joint meeting between OPEC and the European Union.

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