Today (Tuesday), the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to summon the Chargé d'Affairs of the Iraqi Embassy in the Kingdom of Bahrain and withdraw him to the Ministry's headquarters, at Bahrain's request.

Ahmed Al-Sahhaf, spokesman for the ministry, told the official Iraqi News Agency (INA), "Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein directed the return of the Iraqi Chargé d'Affaires to the Kingdom of Bahrain to the ministry's center in Baghdad."

Al-Sahhaf added, "This measure comes to enhance the status of Iraqi diplomacy, which the ministry pursues in preserving diplomatic norms."

Al-Sahhaf did not give any details about the reason for summoning the Iraqi Chargé d'Affairs and withdrawing him from Bahrain.

The Bahraini Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today (Tuesday) that it had summoned Chargé d'Affaires at the Iraqi Embassy in the Kingdom, Moayad Omar Abdul Rahman, and handed him a letter of protest for what it described as his "repeated violations of diplomatic norms."

According to the Bahrain News Agency (BNA), the Bahraini Foreign Minister, Dr. Abdullatif Al-Zayani, informed the Iraqi Chargé d'Affairs of the ministry's strong condemnation of his recent unacceptable behavior that contradicts the diplomatic protocols in the Kingdom, and contradicts his diplomatic duties, as it is an unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of the Kingdom. Bahrain contradicts the principles governing relations between states enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations.