Palmoilmagazine.com, KUALALUMPUR – Recently, the Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC) announced its goal of including 93 percent of crude palm oil-producing nations as members in the upcoming year. These countries, namely Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Colombia, Ghana, and Nigeria, are currently in the process of joining the organization.
Datuk Nageeb Wahab, the Vice General Secretary of CPOPC, expressed the organization’s desire to attract numerous countries from various continents to become part of CPOPC.
“We renewed agreement two years ago and that one year ago, every country should be our members. We got timeline for the next one year we are optimist that they would join. They are interest in but for some legislation in some countries, they postpone,” he said, as Palmoilmahgazine.com quoted from Bernama.
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Nageeb also said, CPOPC would have much power and quality after Thailand joined because it is the third biggest country in the world but it postponed because the general election still runs.
“After general election in Thailand, we would do another approach with them because they would join, as they spoke with us prior,” he said. (T2)
