Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled

RAMALLAH, : Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled Bin Ahmed al-Khalifa gestures during a joint press conference with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas at the latters West Bank Muqataa offices in the city of Ramallah 04 October 2006. Abbas told a joint news conference with visiting Bahraini Foreign Minister Khaled bin Ahmed al-Khalifa that talks on creating a government with the governing Hamas-led government had halted, and vowed to exercise his "prerogatives" should the impasse persist. "At present there is no dialogue. An agreement was reached on September 11 but was broken" by the ruling Islamist movement, Abbas said. AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI (Photo credit should read ABBAS MOMANI/AFP via Getty Images)