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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10339

18 March 2011
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/bahrain
Ashton, in concern, calls for restraint and dialogue

Brussels, 17/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - During the evening of Wednesday 16 March, Catherine Ashton held a telephone conversation with Bahrain's foreign minister, Al Khalifa, to express the EU's “deep concern” at the situation in the capital of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Manama, where the regime, supported by troops sent from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries, has violently repressed Shiite opposition protests against the Sunni dynasty. A state of emergency and martial law has been...

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