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Iran, Russia, Venezuela Back Dropping U.S. Dollar for Oil Trade

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Venezuela, Russia and Iran had proposed the U.S. dollar should be replaced as the currency used for the oil trade, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday.

“We’ve been talking about this in OPEC. Venezuela agrees and there are other countries, such as Iran and Russia that have also proposed this idea,” Chavez told reporters in the central Bolivian region of Cochabamba, where he was attending a summit of Latin American presidents.

A debate about the issue of replacing the dollar with a basket of currencies in an attempt to stabilize revenues has been widely discussed since a report in the Independent newspaper this month said the Persian Gulf states were considering the change.

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