Foreign Minister attends meeting on countering Da'ash

Manama, Nov 23 (BNA): The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, took part in a meeting held at the US Department of State, in Washington, on countering the Da’esh organization, where the US Vice-President Joe Biden was present. A brief was presented by the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter Da’esh, Ambassador Bert Makourk, on the efforts by the coalition to counter Da’esh and the measures to bolster coordination between coalition members as well as the measures required to defeat and eliminate this organization. Addressing the meeting, Shaikh Khalid stressed that countering Da’esh has become a global necessity that cannot be delayed, requiring unity among all nations, to consolidate all efforts and to work together in order to eliminate Da’esh’s criminal extremist ideology and brutal practices that do not have any connection to religion or humanity and that put the whole world in front of a fateful battle. Shaikh Khalid renewed the firm position of the Kingdom of Bahrain and rejection of terrorism in all its forms and whatever the motives and justifications, and to cooperate with all efforts to eliminate the dangerous scourge that threatens all countries of the world, without exception, calling for working with full force on drying the sources of financing of terrorism and eliminating its sources and causes, stressing the keenness of the Kingdom of Bahrain to strengthen its relations with various countries of the world, which would contribute in the face of various current regional and international threats. (Courtesy of MOFA)