Austria foreign minister to skip OPEC conference over media ban -FT

Austria's foreign minister will not attend an OPEC conference in Vienna next week, the Financial Times reported on Friday, following the oil cartel's decision to bar several news organisations from attending.

OPEC has withheld media access to reporters from Reuters, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal to cover a meeting of oil industry CEOs with energy ministers from OPEC and its allies, reporters and people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.