Saudi Arabia will help stabilize oil market, Crown Prince tells Japanese PM

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Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in telephone talks that the kingdom would contribute to the stabilization of the international crude oil market, the Japanese government said on Thursday.


Tight global supplies and geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe and the Middle East have boosted oil prices by about 15 percent so far this year.