12.15.2008

'Arab-superpowers talks not anti-Iran'

I see the invisible hand of Israel in these talks. - Ed.

Bahrain's foreign minister rejects speculations that an upcoming meeting between Arab officials and world powers would be a move against Iran.

"[The meeting's aim] is to talk about our security," Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed bin Mohamed al-Khalifa said in an interview with the Financial Times.

The senior Bahraini official had earlier said that representatives of several Arab states would meet the five permanent members of the UN Security Council in New York on Tuesday, for discussions about the security in the Middle East.

According to the foreign minister's announcement, the talks will take place at the invitation of the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice and on the sidelines of the Middle East diplomatic quartet meeting-between the European Union, Russia, the US, and the United Nations.

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