Bahraini Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa on Friday held official talks in Bangkok with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, in the presence of a number of officials from both sides. The talks discussed measures taken regarding food security, livestock, and fish farming to cater to the basic nutritional needs in Bahrain, avail of Thailand\'s experience in this respect and render Bahrain a regional distribution hub of Thai products, the official Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported. The two sides agreed to work through the Bahraini-Thai Joint Committee and the Joint Businessmen Council to activate previously concluded agreements. They also underlined the need to boost cooperation between GCC countries and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), stressing the need for economic blocs to diversify distribution centres of their products due to economic volatility, BNA said. Both sides also agreed to make use of Bahrain\'s financial and banking institutions, mainly the Islamic ones, to fund Islamic sukuks and ensure Islamic financial and banking institutions are established in Thailand at competitive prices. (QNA)
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