Attendees included laureates from the two winning institutions (NIACE and the Infocentro Foundation of Venezuela), the Deputy Prime Minister of Bahrain and Mrs Irina Bokova, the UNESCO Director General.

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Since last year, when his efforts to broker dialogue in the early stages of the crisis collapsed, the heir to the throne has been marginalised, muscled aside by hardliners loyal to his 76-year-old great-uncle, Bahrain's prime minister of 40 years and its richest man, Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman.

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