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04MANAMA1880
2004-12-15 12:13:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Manama
Cable title:  

BAHRAIN: ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR AND FULL

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C O N F I D E N T I A L MANAMA 001880 

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/15/2014
TAGS: PREL ASEC IZ BA
SUBJECT: BAHRAIN: ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR AND FULL
PARTICIPATION IN IRAQI ELECTIONS

REF: SECSTATE 254809

Classified By: WILLIAM T. MONROE, REASONS 1.4 (B,D)

C O N F I D E N T I A L MANAMA 001880

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/15/2014
TAGS: PREL ASEC IZ BA
SUBJECT: BAHRAIN: ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR AND FULL
PARTICIPATION IN IRAQI ELECTIONS

REF: SECSTATE 254809

Classified By: 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. Abdul Ghaffar said the
GOB had encouraged Sunnis to participate in Iraqi elections
and would continue to do so.


2. (C) PolEcon chief also delivered reftel points to MFA
Director for Bilateral Affairs Dhafer Al Umran December 14.
Al Umran stated that the GOB shares the U.S. view on full
participation by all of Iraq's communities in the elections.
He referred to the boycott of the 2002 parliamentary
elections by many in Bahrain's Shia community and said that
Iraq's Sunni should not make the same mistake. "Those who
boycott," he said, "lose the ballgame." Al Umran stated that
during Saddam's regime, the Sunni were the big fish, and the
community was worried about its future status in Iraq.
MONROE