Khatami hails Bahrain for boosting women's image
Manama
|By A Staff Reporter
| 21-10-2003
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Iranian President, Mohammed Khatami, has hailed Bahrain's efforts in promoting
"real and civilised image of Muslim women," the Bahraini news agency, BNA, said.
Khatami's statement came during a meeting in Tehran on Sunday with Sheikha Sabika
bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, wife of His Majesty King Hamad. Sheikha Sabika, the
first "First Lady" from the Arab world to meet the Iranian president, "underlined
the keenness of the two countries' leaders to cement bilateral relations," said
BNA.
It said Khatami has "underlined the reform project initiated by the King which
had dealt carefully with all women's issues and hailed Sheikha Sabika's role
in highlighting the real image of Muslim women worldwide."
Sheikha Sabika, who is also chairperson of the Supreme Council for Women, would
sign a memo of understanding between the council and the Iranian Centre for
Women's Affairs "to widen the horizons of bilateral ties."
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