Bahrain and Kuwait Hold Diplomatic Negotiations on Sidelines of UNGA
According to statements from the involved parties, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held a series of separate discussions with top Gulf state diplomatic officials in New York yesterday during the 79th session of the UN General Assembly.
Araghchi spoke with both Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani and Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Abdullah Al-Yahya on Sunday in line with the goals set out by recently elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s normatively reformist administration.
During the meeting with Bahrain, Araghchi and Al Zayani discussed the process of restoring diplomatic relations between their two countries and highlighted the importance of emphasizing shared interests and cooperation on key issues within the Middle East at large.
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Bahrain’s Undersecretary for Political Affairs, Shaikh Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, and Jamal Fares Al Rowaiei, Bahrain’s permanent representative to the UN, also attended the meeting.
In the bilateral talks between Kuwait and Iran, the two countries’ foreign ministers reportedly discussed increasing collaboration across various sectors, as well as important regional and international developments pertaining to both nations.
Pezeshkian’s new administration has directed the Iranian attaché to pursue a bold and extensive diplomatic agenda while in New York for the General Assembly session.
The president himself, who was elected in July of this year in a runoff election to replace the deceased Ebrahim Raisi as the Islamic Republic’s top elected official, has said he plans to focus on securing foreign investment from Iranian expatriates living in the US as part of a larger effort to raise some $100 billion in funding from abroad to bolster Iran’s heavily sanctioned and stagnating economy.
