RIYADH:

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah vowed the world's top oil exporter would do everything possible to tame abnormally high oil prices, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in remarks carried by the Saudi Press Agency.

King Abdullah "sees that oil prices are currently abnormally high and he is willing to do all that is possible to bring prices to their appropriate levels", SPA quoted Ban as saying on Sunday in Jeddah after meeting the Saudi monarch.