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Bahrain insists on regulating foreign contacts
Under the decision, the contacts should be held in the presence of a representative from the foreign ministry or any other party the ministry selects.
The decision, an amendment to a 2004 ministry of justice and Islamic affairs decision on communications between local political societies and foreign political parties or organisations, required the political societies to inform the Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs on their coordination with the ministry of foreign affairs at least three working days before the day of the contact.
However, the opposition societies said that the decision aimed to restrict their political manoeuvres and limit their open contacts.
But, Shaikh Khalid at the press conference said that the decision, issued in response to a demand by the parliament, was in line with the 2005 political societies law that stipulated that all political societies in the kingdom had to go public with their activities.
“We thus wish to emphasise that regulating the relationship between local political societies and the representatives of the government on the one hand, and foreign institutions and organisations on the other hand, is the adopted procedure to ensure transparency of political activities,” Shaikh Khalid said.
“The law also required all societies not to interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries and the non-interference of other countries in our internal affairs. Bahrain does believe in the rights of political societies to have political contacts within the confines of the law and transparency,” he said.
The minister said that laws regulating contacts between local parties and foreign political entities existed in several advanced countries, including in Europe where the foreign ministry oversees the situation.