Bahrain police disperse protest after the dialogue start (AFP)

DUBAI (AFP)-the Bahrain police dispersed a demonstration in the capital Manama shortly after the launch of a "national dialogue" intended to turn a deadly crackdown on Shiite-led protests, since State-run media said.

The demonstrators gathered in Sanabis neighborhood in the North of Manama after the funeral of one of those killed during February-March protests, the official BNA news agency quoted a police spokesman as saying late Saturday.

It did not elaborate on why the funeral had been so delayed.

The police spokesman said that officers scattered "unauthorized" demonstrations not far from Pearl Square, the focus of anti-Government protests earlier this year, after giving the standard warnings.

The main Shiite opposition bloc, the Islamic National Accord Association (Al-Wefaq), decided only on the 11th hour to accept the Sunni authorities invitation to join the dialogue after it withdrew its MPs from the Parliament in March in protest against the sentence.

His decision to attend was welcomed by Washington, which bases its fifth fleet in Bahrain.

"Al-Wefags participation will add an important voice of Bahrain political opposition to a process that has the potential to serve as a vehicle for reform and reconciliation ... and produce reforms which will answer the legitimate desire of the people of Bahrain," said State Department spokesman Mark Toner.

The small but strategic Gulf archipelago, joined by a Causeway to Saudi Arabia, have experienced repeated bouts of unrest among its Shiite majority population and a Sunni ruling family.

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A small Protest in the capital of Saudi Arabia

20 March 2011, last updated at 17: 25 -ET has offered the King Abdullah threats and inducements, in front of dozens of people to dissent is rumblings have protested in the capital, Interior Minister of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh.

They require the surrender of persons detained by the Government.

By quoting witness reports said a riot police stop en route to the building, forcing the crowd and arrested about a dozen people.

King Abdullah responded to petitions and small protests by providing improved wages and benefits, but not for political reforms.

Reports say some of the demonstrators argued with the police, but they were shouting slogans and holding Protest signs.

At least 50 police cars surrounded the Ministry of Justice, the Reuters news agency. One report says, were put at the disposal of the Ministry of Justice perceptions of Klimaflüchtlinge around the building, the police riot control.

All public protests are banned in Saudi Arabia, but the Associated Press reports that this is the third Protest by month without trial for long periods of time fro the security of payments to the relatives of persons detained.

On Friday King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia will be warned that the threats, the nation's security and stability will not be tolerated.

He also announced a series of royal decrees, the minimum wage, the promise of higher pay increases, the anti-corruption drive and the expansion of the security forces.

He had earlier unveiled a package of $ billion (£ 22.7bn), the benefits of the Saudi Arabian nationals, when he returned home last month after months spent convalescing surgery in the United States,.

Saudi Arabia has largely escaped, shaking the mass protests in the Middle East. But the country's oil-RICH Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia has sent to the border Where 1,000 soldiers to help the success when you try to get rid of the unrest, Bahrain Shiite minorities have been protests in the Muslim population.