It’s all good for BlackBerry in Bahrain, so far.

Putting an end to all speculations that rose due to security concerns, Bahrain’s foreign minister, Sheik Khaled bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said that the Middle Eastern nation has no such plans to follow their Gulf neighbors, United Arab Emirates (UAE) who decided to ban some BlackBerry services by October this year.

Sheik Khaled told The Associated Press that BlackBerry devices did raise certain genuine concerns, but has claimed that banning some of the features is

“not a way of dealing with it.”

His comments came on the 8th, Sunday, even as some countries have raised the security issue against Canada-based device maker Research in Motion Ltd (RIM) to the way its encrypted e-mail and messenger services are managed.

“We’re not saying there is no security concern,”

Sheik Khaled said in an interview.

(But) There are many other ways for the criminals or terrorists to communicate, so we decided we might as well live with it.”

With UAE deciding to ban the services by the end of the year, Bahrain was expected to follow suit. But Sheik Khaled said that although Bahrain fully respects the move by other Gulf States, they themselves will not impose the ban. This decision came as a big relief for RIM, the makers of BlackBerry.

“It’s not a way of dealing with it. We will really kind of lose a lot of communication freedom just for the sake of dealing with one matter,”

he said.

Sheik Khaled also posted a statement on Twitter account from their crown prince, Sheik Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, in which the prince has told that banning the device would mean being

“ignorant, short sighted and unenforceable.”

Despite managing a close escape from Bahrain, RIM has come under scrutiny from countries including India, Lebanon and Algeria, as the countries are opposing the device as a precautionary measure to avert any national threat.

BlackBerry’s encrypted emails and data are stored on servers in Canada, where RIM is based, making third parties including intelligence incapable of monitoring the secure communications.

Although the future of BlackBerry is temporarily secured in Bahrain, they are under a national security threat in other nations. Whether RIM will bring any changes in managing its encrypted emails and data to play safe is a thing to see in the coming time, but with security concerns on the rise in the nuclear age, most nations will be comfortable only if some amendments are made.