The Qatari-Bahrain Follow-up Committee held its second meeting today, at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The delegation of the State of Qatar was headed by His Excellency Dr. Ahmed bin Hassan Al Hammadi, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while the delegation of the Kingdom of Bahrain was headed by His Excellency Dr. Sheikh Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Political Affairs, according to a statement published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via Twitter.
The meeting discussed the topics on the agenda, and reviewed the outcomes of the first meeting of the Joint Legal Committee and the Joint Security Committee. It was also decided to restore diplomatic relations between the two countries, in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter and the provisions of the Vienna Treaty on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 AD. The two sides affirmed that this step comes out of a mutual desire to develop bilateral relations and enhance Gulf integration and unity in accordance with the purposes of the Statute of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, and out of respect for the principles of equality between states, national sovereignty and independence, territorial integrity, and good neighborliness.
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