Numerous meetings in recent years have ended in stalemates, or with production ceilings agreed to that were subsequently ignored.
It also called for production ceilings.
Once the ministers set a production ceiling, they will have to divide the total among member nations.
That would be 1.5 million barrels above the production ceiling set in November.
The group has a self-imposed, and long-abandoned, production ceiling of 15.06 million barrels.
The production ceiling, now set at 28 million barrels a day and shared by all 11 members except Iraq, would theoretically remain unchanged.
Analysts do not expect the group to raise its current production ceiling of 24.5 million barrels a day.
OPEC's current production ceiling is 15.8 million barrels a day.
It also agreed to raise its overall production ceiling.
It now urged immediate action to bring about a price increase by abandoning the production ceiling increases programmed for the rest of that year.
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