Middle Eastern countries should set up a new regional organisation that includes all Arab states as well as Israel, Iran, and Turkey, the pro-western Gulf state of Bahrain has urged.
The highly unusual call which is likely to provoke controversy came from Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa, the country's foreign minister.
"Why don't we all sit together even if we have differences and even if we don't recognise each other?" he told the London-based daily newspaper al-Hayat. "Why not become one organisation?"
"Aren't we all members of a global organisation called the United Nations? Why not [come together] on a regional basis? This is the only way to solve our problems. There's no other way to solve them, now or in 200 years."
Asked if that should include Israel, he replied: "With Israel, Turkey, Iran and Arab countries. Let them all sit together in one group."
This was clearly more than a throwaway remark. The day before the al-Hayat interview, Sheikh Khalid made the same point in a speech to the UN general assembly in New York, calling for such a body to include countries "without exception".
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