Identifier
Created
Classification
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07MANAMA217
2007-03-07 12:26:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Manama
Cable title:  

BAHRAIN RESPONSE TO IRAQ NEIGHBORS CONFERENCE

Tags:  PREL OIC ARAB LEAGUE UN IZ BA REGION 
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SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/07/2017
TAGS: PREL OIC ARAB LEAGUE UN IZ BA REGION
SUBJECT: BAHRAIN RESPONSE TO IRAQ NEIGHBORS CONFERENCE
DEMARCHE

REF: STATE 28320

Classified By: Ambassador William T. Monroe for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)

C O N F I D E N T I A L MANAMA 000217

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SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/07/2017
TAGS: PREL OIC ARAB LEAGUE UN IZ BA REGION
SUBJECT: BAHRAIN RESPONSE TO IRAQ NEIGHBORS CONFERENCE
DEMARCHE

REF: STATE 28320

Classified By: Ambassador William T. Monroe for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)


1. (C) DCM delivered reftel points March 7 to Ministry of
Foreign Affairs Assistant Undersecretary for Coordination and
Follow-up Shaikh Abdul-Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Shaikh
Abdul-Aziz stated that the meeting is important, pledged
Bahrain's support for a successful outcome, and agreed that
there must be a unified message to Iran and Syria to support
stability and security in Iraq. When asked about a potential
US - Iran meeting on the margins of the conference, the DCM
replied that while no meeting has of yet been scheduled, if
it were to take place, discussions would be narrowly limited
to Iraq-related issues.


2. (C) Shaikh Abdul-Aziz said the MFA Director of Arab
Affairs, Zuhair Mandeel, would be representing Bahrain at the
conference, and may be accompanied by one or two other
delegates. He relayed that March 6 the Turkish Ambassador in
Bahrain invited the Bahraini delegation to join a Turkish
flight leaving Istanbul early morning March 10 for the
Baghdad meeting, and that the Kuwaiti delegation was
scheduled to be on the same flight. Shaikh Abdul-Aziz said
he understood that a second staging point out of Amman was
being organized for other delegations, but the plan for the
Bahrainis is to travel via Turkey.

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