Bahrain welcomes Saudi King's call for GCC, Arab summits

Manama, May 19 (BNA): Bahrain has welcomed the call by the Custodian of the two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to hold two emergency summits, one for the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and the other for the Arab leaders, in Makkah on May 30. The Kingdom highly values this call from the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, affirming Bahrain's full support for all the steps taken by Saudi Arabia and appreciating Riyadh's steadfast solidarity and its strenuous efforts to preserve the security and stability of the region and to promote Arab interests. Bahrain affirmed that the wise call by the Custodian of the two Holy Mosques affirms the leading Saudi role in cementing joint Arab action. It also valued the Saudi keenness on enhancing collective action to overcome the delicate conditions that the GCC region is going through consultation and co-ordination between the GCC and Arab countries. Bahrain sees a unified collective position as the guarantor for security and stability of the countries and peoples of the region and a factor of continued development and progress that would contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security, the ministry said.