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Kerry: U.S. Encourages Bahrain Talks
2013-03-06
[An Nahar] The United States wants the rival parties in Bahrain's political crisis to hold talks on resolving the two-year deadlock in their country, U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
said on Tuesday.

"Progress has been made" in Bahrain, he told news hounds in Doha, the last leg of a regional tour. "What I did was encouraging ... dialogue (to continue) and to reach a resolution."

Kerry met Bahraini Foreign Minister Khaled al-Khalifa in Riyadh on Monday.

"He assured me that they are going to continue in good faith and obviously all of us encourage that and look forward to see positive results," said the secretary of state.

A new round of talks between the Shiite-led opposition and the government began last month in Bahrain.
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