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Kuwaiti diplomat Abdullah Abdulsamad Dashti was appointed United Nations Co-ordinator for the Black Sea Grain Initiative. The initiative was launched by Ukraine, Turkey, Russia and the UN to enable exports of grain, foodstuffs and fertiliser from Ukraine via a safe maritime corridor.

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The United States has contradicted claims by Saudi Arabia and the UAE that they played a central role in arranging a prisoner swap which saw US basketball star Brittney Griner freed from a Russian prison and Russian arms dealer Victor Bout released from a US jail.

Saudi Arabia | United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Bahrain hosted the 18th edition of the Manama Dialogue on 18-20 November, a major geopolitical summit run by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). National security advisor Sheikh Nasser Bin Hamad Al-Khalfia gave the opening remarks.

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Issue 1157 - 04 November 2022

Indian Orthodox Church leader visits Manama

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Manama continues to make efforts to enhance its credentials for freedom of religion, with King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa holding talks with the Indian Orthodox Church supreme leader Pope Moran Mar Baselios Marthoma Mathews III at Al-Safriya Palace.

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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force provides a command and control template that facilitates the IRGC’s work with allies across the region, led by Lebanese Hizbollah and apparent in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

Iran | Yemen
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Prosecutors in Sweden said on 29 April they were seeking life imprisonment for former Iranian public prosecutor Hamid Nouri, during a trial over his role in the mass executions of political prisoners in Gohardasht prison in Iran in 1988.

Iran
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A mooted plan for Qatar to supply natural gas to Lebanon via Jordan and Syria further ties President Bashir Al-Assad’s regime into regional developments and could add to the momentum for Damascus to be readmitted to the League of Arab States.

Qatar | Syria
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Saudi chief of general staff Fayyad Bin Hamid Al-Ruwaili visited Oman from 2-4 January for talks with senior officials including deputy prime minister for defence affairs Sayyid Shihab Bin Tariq Al-Said and the Sultan’s Armed Forces chief of staff Abdullah Bin Khamis Bin Abdullah Al-Raisi.

Saudi Arabia | Oman
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The UAE has yet to take any firm action following the Houthi attack on Abu Dhabi International Airport and an Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) fuel depot at nearby Mussafah on 17 January, which reportedly killed three people. However, the government has said it “reserves the right to respond to these terrorist attacks and criminal escalation”.

Yemen | United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Minister of state Prince Turki Bin Mohammed Bin Fahd Al-Saud has been on the move again, visiting Bahrain, Kuwait and the UAE in recent weeks.

Kuwait | Saudi Arabia | Bahrain | United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Exiled Iranian monarchist leader Jamshid Sharmahd, a US-German national, appears to have been kidnapped in the UAE and taken back to Iran covertly through Oman.

Iran | United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Ambassador Hunina Al-Mughairy has stepped down after almost 15 years in the United States. Al-Mughairy took up the post in December 2005, having previously worked as the representative of the Omani Center for Investment Promotion and Export Development in New York.

Oman
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An official visit by UAE's President Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (MBZ) to Pakistan was postponed at the last minute on 30 January, with an official statement citing weather conditions. The proposed visit would have come just days after MBZ had last been to the country on 25 January.

United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Overall, the Iraqi delegation - led by foreign minister Fuad Hussein, and included  bankers, businessmen and spin-doctors - left Washington satisfied by the positive optics around the US-Iraq partnership and broad acceptance of prime minister Mohammed Al-Sudani's agenda.  

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The start of construction at the Dabaa nuclear power plant is both a major step forward for President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s ambition to lead Egypt into the elite grouping of nuclear nations and a rejection of Russia’s pariah status among western nations. But the start of work at El Dabaa is also a significant advance in Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS)’s aim of shaping the development of a nuclear Middle East, with the ultimate goal of ensuring that Arab states can confront Iran on an equal footing without having to rely on the United States.

Saudi Arabia | United Arab Emirates (UAE)