OPEC measures to strengthen cooperation between these countries... [The OPEC Special Fund's] resources are additional to those already made available by OPEC states through a number of bilateral and multilateral channels." The Fund became an official international development agency in May 1980 and was renamed the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), with Permanent Observer status at the United Nations. On 21 December 1975, Saudi Arabia's Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Iran's Jamshid Amuzegar, and the other OPEC oil ministers were taken hostage at their semi-annual conference in Vienna, Austria. The attack, which killed three non-ministers, was orchestrated by a six-person team led
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz the depiction of contemporary laymen in the lower, earthly zone. However, Scroth departs from Wethey's absolute rejection of the presence of Byzantine elements in the painting, and accepts "Dormition" as an influence for the "Burial" 's depiction of the "assumptio animae". A third work of Tintoretto, "The Last Judgment", is mentioned by Schroth as a possible influence for the "Burial" 's depiction of Gloria, since Greco wanted to incorporate elements of the funeral liturgy in the upper part of the painting. Regardless of their different approaches in relation to the painting's influences, the "Burial" is unanimously celebrated by art scholars