CP RECEIVES LAVROV

RUSSIA’ POSITIVE AND  BALANCED ATTITUDE TOWARDS REGIONAL  CAUSES IN GENERAL  AND  THE MIDDLE EAST ISSUES IN PARTICULAR AS  WELL AS ITS SUPPORT FOR THE PALESTINIANS  WERE LAUDED BY CROWN  PRINCE AND  DEPUTY SUPREME COMMANDER SHAIKH  SALMAN BIN HAMAD AL KHALIFA WHO  RECEIVED VISITING RUSSIAN  FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEY LAVROV IN  MANAMA TODAY.

IN A MEETING WITH LAVROV IN THE PRESENCE  OF FOREIGN MINISTER SHAIKH KHALID BIN  AHMED BIN  MOHAMMED  AL KHALIFA, THE CROWN PRINCE DESCRIBED  THE VISIT AS HISTORIC AS IT WAS THE FIRST TO  BE PAID BY A RUSSIAN  FOREIGN MINISTER TO BAHRAIN.

THE CROWN PRINCE ALSO HAILED RUSSIA’S  SUPPORT OF THE EGYPTIAN INITIATIVE TO  REINFORCE THE TRUCE IN GAZA  AND  PEACE CHANCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST,  LAUDING RUSSIA’ EFFORTS IN ALLEVIATING THE  SUFFERINGS OF GAZANS.

ON HIS PART, LAVROV EXPRESSED DELIGHT  OVER HIS VISIT, UTTERED READINESS TO  BOLSTER BILATERAL TIES AND  HAILED  BAHRAIN’S ECONOMIC EXPERIENCE, LOOKING  FORWARD TO MORE COOPERATION BETWEEN  THE TWO COUNTRIES. PRESENT AT THE MEETING WAS HEAD OF THE  CROWN PRINCE’S COURT SHAIKH KHALIFA BIN  DAIJ AL KHALIFA.