50th Annoversary of OPEC

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) founded in 1960, was celebrating its 50th anniversary. To mark OPEC's 50th anniversary, the 12 member OPEC countries will be issuing the Special Anniversary Stamps.

In this respect, Kuwait released the OPEC 50th Anniversary commemorative stamps on 20-Jun-2010.  The stamp has the festivity's logo written in both Arabic and English.  The stamps were priced in 25 fils, 50 fils and 150 fils.  The stamp design won the first place in OPEC's Anniversary competition.

Contributed by our Member, K.Sridhar.