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‘Bahrain will build on partnership with Israel’

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Bahrain will continue to build its relationship with Israel after former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rightwing allies triumphed in Israel's general election, the diplomatic adviser to Bahrain's king said yesterday.

The diplomatic adviser, Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, said Netanyahu's win was "normal and always expected".

"We have an agreement with Israel, part of the Abraham Accords, and we will stick to our agreement and we expect it to continue in the same line and continue building our partnership together," he told reporters.

"We will want to make an example and succeed together and face all the threats," he said, responding to a question about a multilateral regional approach to security that includes Israel.

"We would like to make sure that we don't have to reach a day that we will face some deterioration of security in the region of any sort," said Sheikh Khalid.

"We do want to have the region come to terms between all the countries and agree against any belligerency from any side to any other.