Newshour: Bahrain conference
this evening (monday 20th), 9.06-9.18pm, on bbc world service radio
newshour (presented by james coomarasamy) leads with …
“Palestinians boycott US-led economic conference:
Palestinian officials say they won’t attend a US led conference in Bahrain aimed at bolstering the economies of the occupied West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinians say they won’t participate, and that nobody can negotiate on their behalf.”
including contributions from …
• bbc reporter tim franks
• aryeh eldad, former mk, resident of kfar adumim
• shabtai shavit, former director of mossad
• ahmed majdalani, palestinian minister for social development
• ziad khalil abu zayyad, spokesman for fatah
(more…)
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