BEIRUT (AFP) ??” Kuwaiti strength Minister Sheikh Ahmad Fahd al-Sabah said his nation was ready to accept an increase in OPEC's oil production ceiling to 26 million barrels through day (bpd).

BEIRUT (AFP) ??” Kuwaiti strength Minister Sheikh Ahmad Fahd al-Sabah said his nation was ready to accept an increase in OPEC's oil production ceiling to 26 million barrels through day (bpd).

"If a certain quantity of members ask for 26, we don't mind," Sabah told reporters forward arrival in Beirut where an extraordinary conversation of the Organisation of mineral pitch Exporting Countries is due to be held upon Thursday.

The oil cartel has a popular output quota of 23.5 million bpd

moreover Sabah said "OPEC should not suspend its quota scheme even if members are producing above the ceiling."

"We have to restrain our quotas but increase our production, it will have the same goal," he said.

Sabah said "we