OPEC secretary general Mohammad Barkindo dies aged 63

WORLD, Jul.06 (YPA) – The Secretary-General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, has died.

Barkindo died on Tuesday evening, according to the Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari.

“We lost our esteemed Dr Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo,” Kyari said in a tweet.

Barkindo passed away aged 63. He was in the final weeks of his six-year tenure as the top diplomat at the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

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