RP gov’t sets up team to assess Bahrain situation By Michaela P. del Callar and Aytch S. de la Cruz 03/17/2011

RP gov’t sets up team to assess Bahrain situation

By Michaela P. del Callar and Aytch S. de la Cruz 03/17/2011

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is sending a team to Bahrain today to assess the current situation on the ground and strengthen its contingency measures should there be a need to move out all 31,000 Filipinos once tension escalates in the troubled Middle East state.

Acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario when interviewed by reporters at the DFA said the composition of the team is being firmed up, but they were to leave “as early as tomorrow (March 17).”

“We already have a contingency plan. We want to make sure that on the ground it works,” he stressed.

Bahrain has been wracked by weeks of violent anti-government protests, calling for the ouster of the Sunni dynasty that has held power for more than two centuries..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110317hed6.html