Minister criticises opposition’s stance on dialogue

State Minister for Information Affairs, Samira Ibrahim bin Rajab, the government’s official Spokesperson, criticized, in a statement to Asharq Alawsat newspaper, the opposition for misusing a call for a national dialogue and falsely promoting it in the media.

Any national dialogue to overcome the crisis will not ignore any component of the Bahraini society and will not be with one side at the expense of the other. It will, however, be complementary to the national consensus dialogue that took place in July 2011 and will commence as soon as the opposition stops violence and relinquishes conditions and restraints put to engage in that dialogue, it was stressed.