BAHRAIN: SECRETARY'S ORAL MESSAGE TO GCC FOREIGN

C O N F I D E N T I A L MANAMA 001879 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/15/2014 TAGS: PREL PGOV PTER MOPS OPDC BA SUBJECT: BAHRAIN: SECRETARY'S ORAL MESSAGE TO GCC FOREIGN MINISTERS REF: SECSTATE 264697 Classified By: AMBASSADOR WILLIAM T. MONROE, REASONS 1.4 (B,D) ¶1. (C) NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary Philo Dibble delivered reftel message to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar December 13. The minister assured DAS Dibble that the MFA would carefully consider all points of the message. ¶2. (C) PolEcon chief also delivered reftel message to MFA Director for Bilateral Affairs Dhafer Al Umran December 14. He promised to pass it to his MFA colleagues responsible for organizing the GCC summit. MONROE