CROWN PRINCE RECEIVES ITALIAN AMBASSADOR

CROWN PRINCE AND DEPUTY  SUPREME COMMANDER SHAIKH SALMAN BIN HAMAD AL KHALIFA CONSIDERS  ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL COOPERATION AND TRANSFER OF ITALIAN TECHNOLOGY AND  ECONOMIC EXPERTISE TO THE KINGDOM AS A COMMON BAHRAINI-ITALIAN PRIORITY.

THE CROWN PRINCE ADDED AS HE RECEIVED ITALIAN  AMBASSADOR TO BAHRAINENRICO PADULA ON MONDAY THAT BAHRAINI-ITALIAN  COOPERATION SHOULD COVER ECONOMIC, CULTURAL, INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL  AREAS TO IMPACT WELL THE OVERALL BILATERAL RELATIONS.

SHAIKH SALMAN ALSO CALLED ON ITALY AND THE EU IN  GENERAL TO AVAIL OFTHE GOOD MIDEAST-EU TIES TO HELP PUSH FOR A  SETTLEMENT TO THE MIDDLEEAST CONFLICT IN LINE WITH THE NEW US ADMINISTRATION’S  VISION.

HE ALSO PRAISED THE EU CRISIS-MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE  AND UNDERLINEDTHE DETERMINATION OF HM KING HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA  TO PUSH FORSTABILITY AND ECONOMIC PROSPERITY IN THE WHOLE  REGION.

ON HIS PART, PADULA HAILED THE EFFORTS EXERTED BY THE  CROWN PRINCE TO PROMOTE RATIONALITY AND POUR INTO ADEQUATE CRISIS-MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS IN THE REGION, EXPRESSING HIS COUNTRY’S KEENNESS ON  FURTHER BOOSTING ITS TIES WITH BAHRAIN.

AT THE END OF THE MEETING, ALSO ATTENDED BY CROWN PRINCE’S PERSONAL SECRETARY SHAIKH ABDULLAH BIN ISA AL KHALIFA, THE ITALIAN AMBASSADOR PRESENTED A MEMENTO TO SHAIKH SALMAN.