US: Deal 'not only economic'; Bahrain: Workshop ‘serves no other purpose'
The Bahraini statement came after the Palestinian leadership dismissed the planned “economic workshop” in Bahrain meeting and made clear they would boycott it.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) greets Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifah before a working lunch at the conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, on February 14, 2019(photo credit: JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP)ByHERB KEINON