Bahrain getting ready to open Baghdad embassy

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - Bahrain's state-run news agency reports that the tiny Gulf state is getting ready to open an embassy in Baghdad.

The Bahrain News Agency quotes the foreign minister as saying the island kingdom "is in the phase of naming an ambassador" to Baghdad.

Bahrain would be the second Gulf country to announce sending an ambassador to Iraq since Saddam Hussein's fall following the United Arab Emirates.

On Thursday, Emirates' foreign minister announced in Baghdad that his nation is to send an ambassador next week. Many countries have diplomatic missions but no ambassador in Baghdad.
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