HE Mr. Abdulla bin Adel Fakhro, Minister of Industry and Commerce received Mr. Khaled El Mekwad, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Bahrain.

The Minister affirmed the government's keenness to increase opportunities for cooperation with the United Nations and its multiple development programs, praising the great efforts and development contributions of the United Nations and its agencies to support economic development, and noting the importance of the initiatives of the United Nations Executive Office and its remarkable contributions to many projects and programs in the country, to achieve the goals of sustainable development.

For his part, Mr. Khaled El Mekwad, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Bahrain, expressed his appreciation to the Government of Bahrain for all its efforts to support the initiatives of international organizations and their programs, praising the accelerating growth of Bahraini economy and the progress the Kingdom is witnessing on various levels.​