His Royal Highness the Prime Minister lauded the effective role of the oil and gas industry in boosting growth and development and said that the government continues its strategic plans to ensure exploitation of oil and gas resources to speed up development, citing significance of attracting more expos for this sector.
His Royal Highness told the cabinet about the success of the Middle East Oil & Gas Conference and Expo (MEOS 2011) and emphasized that the numbers of participants in the Expo and Conference reflects the trust they placed on the Kingdom’s economic and investment capabilities, and praised the preparations and organization, expressed gratitude and appreciation to the Minister of Energy who, in turn, submitted a report accompanied with statistics that included participating countries and registration of companies who would like to partake in the conference as exhibitors and working papers scheduled to be presented during the conference.
The Cabinet Minister Kamal bin Ahmed Mohammed issues a statement touching upon all the aspects of the Cabinet meeting.
His Royal Highness the Prime Minister emphasized the noble intentions of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa for the country and citizens and his keenness to find solutions to all issues as His Majesty explored all good means, spared no efforts, and showed keenness for the sake of security and stability of the country.
HRH Premier highlighted His Majesty’s sincerest intentions and transparency while tackling issues fairly and justly and he expressed our gratitude to His Majesty the King for the achievements he has realized for his Kingdom and people and with divine success we will achieve all of His Majesty’s ambitions for the sake of the welfare and prosperity of the country and citizens.
The Cabinet reviewed the governmental committee’s upon completion of its task assigned by His Royal Highness the Prime Minister, of follow up and implementation of the national dialogue views. The committee presided over by Deputy Premier His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa completed its mission of following up implementation of the recommendations of the political views of the national consensus dialogue and submitted its report.
The cabinet, approved taking necessary constitutional and legal actions to implement the agreed views in the political theme of the national dialogue including swapping the national assembly presidency from the Shura Council’s chairman to the House of Representatives speaker and re-consideration of constituencies, setting criteria for selection of members for the Shura council, increasing legislative and supervisory powers of the House of Representatives, obligatory summoning of ministers to attend the House of Representatives’ meetings for discussion of matters concerning their ministry, and developing a mechanism to expedite legislations.
His Royal Highness the Prime Minister expressed utmost gratitude and appreciation to Deputy Premier His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa chairman of the governmental committee and its members for their laudable efforts in following up implementation of conceded views of the national consensus dialogue.
The cabinet welcomed the selection of the Kingdom of Bahrain as the Arab Capital for Tourism for the year 2013AD that reflects the Kingdom of Bahrain’s distinguished regional and international place.
The Prime Minister instructed that while implementing health projects to carefully choose the locations of health and medical centers. The cabinet approved and referred to the legislative authority a bill of law for modification of some provisions of the Municipal Act issued by the Decree-by-Law No. (35) for the year 2001. The cabinet approved and referred to the legislative authority a bill of law for modification of some provisions of Act No. (22) regarding the protection of copyright and associated rights to ensure that the provisions of said law are in harmony with the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the United States of America.
The cabinet approved and referred to the legislative authority a bill of law for approval of the Kingdom of Bahrain’s joining the treaty of cancellation of diplomatic and consular ratification conditions pertaining to foreign documents (the Hague Treaty of 1961AD) that aims at cancellation of ratification conditions pertaining to public foreign documents.
The cabinet approved the introduction of a Technical Directorate in the Tender Board and tasked the concerned authorities to take the necessary legal and technical actions.
The cabinet approved to re-registration of the Islamic Call Organization and taking the Kingdom of Bahrain as base for its General Secretariat office, upon perusal of the memorandum submitted in this regard by Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The cabinet instructed the Ministry of Education to expedite transferring all prefabricated classrooms into academic buildings and to lay down a time chart for implementation thereof so as to realize comfortable and encouraging incentives for students commensurate with the proposal submitted in this respect by the House of Representatives.
The cabinet also approved a proposal submitted by the House of Representatives regarding the formation of investigation committees and the selection of members thereof.