Statement of Bahrain at the UNGA72

Gender/Women: Bahrain has recently issued a family unification law that sets up an important legislative tool that enhances the stability of the family and preserves all its rights without exploitation or abuse, based on the teachings of our tolerant Islamic religion. The Bahraini Constitution affirms that the family is the basis of society. This law demonstrates the commitment of the Kingdom of Bahrain to international law relating to family and women, especially CEDAW.

Women/women empowerment: Last March, the international award for women’s empowerment of her Highness Sabikeh bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa, the King’s wife, President of the Supreme Council for Women, was launched, which is consistent with the objectives of the United Nations goal to strengthen the role of women in the process of development and progress, and reflects the pioneering and influential experience of Bahraini women on the national and international levels.

Qatar: With this in mind, and in support of efforts to eliminate terrorist extremism and believing in the importance of alliances for security and peace, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Arab Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Arab Republic of Egypt and with the support of many other countries have exercised a sovereign right guaranteed by international law, to sever relations with Qatar, after long patience, and exhausting all available means to stop policies that violated the brotherly relations and principles of good neighborliness and interference in the internal affairs of States, and provide financial support and safe haven for terrorists and wanted persons in their countries…

Iran: The regimes that have spread chaos and evil, and represent shovels of destruction and destruction, and their peoples will be the victim, as in the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose people suffer from injustice, misery, poverty, oppression and lynching on the streets, under difficult living conditions, returned its people, with the ancient respectable civilization, decades backwards by wasting its people’s financial resources...  and its support for its terrorist organizations, including the terrorist Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, and the coup militias in Yemen,  and terrorist groups and cells in the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the Republic of Iraq, and other countries that have suffered from these hostile behavior for many years, asserting that the speech of the American President here in front of the General Assembly of the United Nations, includes the correct readings of the situation that  reveals and all clearly, the dangerous nature of the regime in Iran …

Iraq: On the other hand, the Republic of Iraq struggled-and is still- struggling from foreign interference to turn it into a conflict zone, made achievements worth of praising and supporting, where this sister country was able, with its limited resources, to free Mosul and Tal Afar  province from the terrorist group Daesh…

Yemen: As for the situation in Yemen, we are reinstating our continues support for the legitimate government with the leadership of his excellency President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, President of the Republic of Yemen, through our participation in the Arab Coalition for supporting the legitimacy in Yemen, and supporting the measures it is taking to expand its control of the coup militias supported from abroad, and reaching a comprehensive solution based on international agreements, which has been agreed upon and they are: the Gulf Initiative and its operational mechanisms and the outputs of the national dialogue and UNSCR 2216.

Syria: And in relations to the Syrian Arab Republic, we are urging the international community to accelerate their efforts in protecting their civilians and stopping the bloodshed, and obligating all parties to abide by the cease-fire and determining areas of conflict mitigations, and guaranteeing the entrance of humanitarian assistance to besieged areas, and increasing the support for countries that are hosting a big number of our Syrian Brothers, primarily the Kingdom of Jordan…

Libya: And for Libya, we applaud the liberation of a number of major cities from the grip of terrorist groups, and we reiterate our complete support for all the efforts aiming to achieve reconciliation between all parties to the conflict in Libya...hoping that these efforts continue in a way that guarantees the unity of Libya and its land and fulfils the aspirations of its people…

Morocco: And as it relates to the case of the Moroccan Sahara, the Kingdom of Bahrain reiterates the importance of supporting negotiations to finding an agreed upon political solution for this issue…

Palestine: The Palestinian issue is of a high priority for the foreign policy of the Kingdom of Bahrain, which stands with and supports the Palestinian people’s legitimate right to establish an independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital within the borders of 1967 according to the relevant international agreements and the Arab Initiative and the two state solution...