After being criticized over interviews he gave to the Israeli media during the Bahrain economic workshop this week, Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa on Friday stressed in an interview with Al Arabiya that the Manama workshop was not a step toward normalizing relations with Israel.
The Foreign Minister affirmed Manama’s support for the Palestinian people’s right to an independent Palestinian state along the pre-1967 borders with eastern Jerusalem as its capital.
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