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13th May 2011, 06:02
The British government is protecting the Bahraini regime from sanctions and refraining from taking the case of Bahraini leaders' crimes against humanity to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
In the wake of the brutal suppression of Bahraini protestors by the al-Khalifa regime, Foreign Office Minister Lord David Howell said in a statement to the House of Lords that the Foreign Office is not currently considering an embargo on Bahrain.
“At this present stage, we do not consider travel bans or other charges and moves of that kind to be a proper way forward,” Lord Howell said.
According to the Islamic Republic of Iran News Agency (IRAN), Howell insisted London believes in the settlement of the crisis in Bahrain through a national dialogue claiming the situation is an “appalling” case of “inter-regional strife between the Shai majority and the Sunni minority that represents the ruling group”.
Howell's description of the situation in Bahrain as a conflict between the Sunni rulers and the Shia opposition comes as, Bahrainis living in Britain chanted slogans of “Shias and Sunnis are united in Bahrain” in a late April rally outside the Saudi embassy in London stressing the uprising in the Persian Gulf state aims at obtaining “justice and democracy”.
“For the moment, we stick to the view that we must urge these countries, the ruling family [al-Khalifa] and the leaders on both sides-the opposition and the ruling group-to move towards a national dialogue. That is what they say they want and that is what we are urging them to do as hard as we can at the moment,” Howess insisted.
Howell's remarks came during a Lords debate on whether to impose sanctions on Bahrain over the reported persecution of medical staff by the country's rulers who are charging doctors with crimes against the monarchy.
Howell had no alternative but to accept that the harsh treatment of the medical staff by the Bahraini regime is too serious to ignore.
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/179539.html
In the wake of the brutal suppression of Bahraini protestors by the al-Khalifa regime, Foreign Office Minister Lord David Howell said in a statement to the House of Lords that the Foreign Office is not currently considering an embargo on Bahrain.
“At this present stage, we do not consider travel bans or other charges and moves of that kind to be a proper way forward,” Lord Howell said.
According to the Islamic Republic of Iran News Agency (IRAN), Howell insisted London believes in the settlement of the crisis in Bahrain through a national dialogue claiming the situation is an “appalling” case of “inter-regional strife between the Shai majority and the Sunni minority that represents the ruling group”.
Howell's description of the situation in Bahrain as a conflict between the Sunni rulers and the Shia opposition comes as, Bahrainis living in Britain chanted slogans of “Shias and Sunnis are united in Bahrain” in a late April rally outside the Saudi embassy in London stressing the uprising in the Persian Gulf state aims at obtaining “justice and democracy”.
“For the moment, we stick to the view that we must urge these countries, the ruling family [al-Khalifa] and the leaders on both sides-the opposition and the ruling group-to move towards a national dialogue. That is what they say they want and that is what we are urging them to do as hard as we can at the moment,” Howess insisted.
Howell's remarks came during a Lords debate on whether to impose sanctions on Bahrain over the reported persecution of medical staff by the country's rulers who are charging doctors with crimes against the monarchy.
Howell had no alternative but to accept that the harsh treatment of the medical staff by the Bahraini regime is too serious to ignore.
source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/179539.html