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Foreign Secretary Cleverly speech at the Manama Dialogue in Bahrain
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MANAMA, 20 November 2022, (TON): The Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has given a speech at the Manama Dialogue in Bahrain, in which he called our Russia and Iran as threats to the security of the Middle East.
Thank you for inviting me to speak here today.
When Britain opened our Embassy here in Bahrain, our diplomats could look directly over the waters of the Gulf and watch dhows carrying pearl divers to the northern oyster beds.
Yet today our Embassy is almost half a mile from the coast, not because it has moved, but because Bahrain has moved the sea by reclaiming land that once lay beneath the waves.
The lesson I draw is that when our friends in the Gulf and the wider region decide to make change happen, they can reinvent themselves, and indeed reinvent their economies, with astonishing speed.
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