Jordan supports dispatch of GCC troops to Bahrain

Wed, 16 Mar 2011

Amman - Jordan on Wednesday supported the dispatch of troops from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states to Bahrain, calling it a "sovereign" decision.

"We fully back all sovereign decisions taken by our GCC brethren, particularly those measures which have the aim of safeguarding stability and security as well as facing foreign intervention in member states," Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said in a statement carried by the official Petra news agency.

"Jordan also considers the undermining stability and security of Bahrain and other GCC countries as well as foreign intervention in their internal affairs as red lines," he added, alluding to Iran.

Judeh said that Amman fully supported all "constructive initiatives" which had been adopted by the Bahraini leadership for dealing with the situation.

GCC troops were dispatched at the Bahraini government's request to help quell the uprising by majority Shiite Muslims against the Sunni leadership.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/372066,dispatch-gcc-troops-bahrain.html.