Foreign Ministry undersecretary meets IISS executive director

TDT | Manama

Foreign Affairs Ministry undersecretary Dr Shaikha Rana bint Isa bin Daij Al Khalifa met at the ministry’s General Court with International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in the Middle East executive director Sir Tom Beckett.

The undersecretary praised the important role played by the IISS in studying and analysing the issues, challenges and conflicts that countries of the region and the world are facing, and in discussing ways to solve them in order to establish security and stability.

Dr Shaikha Rana stressed the importance of continuing cooperation and coordination and promoting it to broader and more comprehensive horizons, in order to achieve common interests. She wished further success to Sir Tom and to all those in charge of the institute.

Sir Tom hailed the great and endless support that IISS receives from the Foreign Affairs Ministry, which greatly contributes to achieving its goals and aspirations, and wished Bahrain further progress and prosperity. The two sides discussed a number of topics of common interest, primarily coordination for the Manama Dialogue.