Adviser to HM the King for the Legislative Branch's Affairs and Deputy President of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs Dr. Mohammed Ali bin Al-Shaikh Mansour Al-Sitri received here today the Deputy Director for Policy and Research at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Dwight Bashir and his accompanying delegation, currently on a visit to the kingdom. Dr. Al-Sitri reviewed with the US delegation areas of joint cooperation between the two friendly countries, and praised the steadily growing bilateral cooperation.Dwight Bashir lauded the kingdom's reforms, openness, tolerance and religious freedom guaranteed for all sects in Bahrain, praising the kingdom's efforts to consolidate those freedoms further.