CROWN PRINCE RECEIVES PINGREE

CROWN PRINCE AND DEPUTY SUPREME COMMANDER SHAIKH SALMAN BIN HAMAD AL KHALIFA HAS CALLED ON US INSTITUTIONS TO LOOK AT REGIONAL ISSUES AND COMPREHEND THEM IN  AN INTRINSIC  WAY RATHER THAN DEALING WITH THEM FROM A CONCEPTUAL ANGLE.

SPEAKING TO A VISITING DELEGATION FROM THE US CONGRESS, LED BY CONGRESSWOMAN CHELLIE PINGREE, SHAIKH SALMAN URGED THE US TO BACK THE ARAB MODERATE SIDES WHO ARE KEEN TO PROTECT THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THEIR  PEOPLES. THE MAIN CONCERNS OF LEADERS AND PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST REGION ARE PEACE AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STATE AS PER THE TWO-STATE VISION, HE SAID.

HE ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE DEEP-ROOTED BAHRAINI-US TIES THAT EMANATE FROM THEIR HARMONIOUS VIEWS WITH REGARD TO MANY REGIONAL PRIORITIES, SAYING THAT BAHRAIN, LED BY HM KING HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA, WAS ABLE TO MAINTAIN THIS STRATEGIC ALLIANCE DESPITE WHAT HAPPENED IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.

HE WARNED AGAINST APPLYING THE ONE BASKET CONCEPT IN DEALING WITH REGIONAL ISSUES AND ADVISED TO  TREAT EACH ISSUE ACCORDING TO ITS SPECIFICITY AND NATURE WITHOUT MIXING BETWEEN AFGHANISTAN’S  TERRORISM AND THE LEGITIMATE STRUGGLE IN PALESTINE.

THE MEETING DEALT WITH BILATERAL TIES AMID THE  DIFFICULT GLOBAL ECONOMIC SITUATION WHERE PINGREE BEGAN HER PRESENTATION BY PRAISING THE KINGDOM’S ECONOMY AND MONETARY STABILITY AT THE TIME THE ENTIRE WORLD IS UNDERGOING A FINANCIAL CRUNCH. PRESENT AT THE MEETING WERE HEAD OF CROWN PRINCE’S COURT SHAIKH KHALIFA BIN DAIJ AL KHALIFA AND  BAHRAINI AMBASSADOR TO WASHINGTON.