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During a meeting with the delegation of the Board of Trustees of the Bahrain Institute for Political Development..Al-Saleh confirms that the right political development is the one which creates appropriate conditions for democratic evolution
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Inter-Parliamentary Union ... 134 years of commitment to peace, democracy
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146th IPU Assembly convenes in Bahrain
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