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"Andrew WK&amp;#039;s planned trip to Bahrain has been called off. It was reported last weekend that the musician and motivational speaker would visit the country, and that he had been appointed a cultural ambassador to the Middle East.  However, DCist reports that the &amp;#039;Party Hard&amp;#039; singer will no longer be visiting the region, and had not been officially designated as a cultural ambassador by the US government. &amp;quot;We had a Bahraini entity approach the embassy about co-sponsoring a visit by this guy, who I take is pretty popular there in Bahrain,&amp;quot; State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told journalists at a press briefing on Monday (November 26). Nuland added: &amp;quot;That [request] was initially approved. And then when more senior management at the embassy took a look at this, the conclusion was that this was not an appropriate use of US government funds.  &amp;quot;I think the conclusion was, when they looked at the body of his work, that we didn&amp;#039;t need to be part of this invitation... Frankly, I don&amp;#039;t have the details. There may have been some preliminary conversations with him, but he is not going to be going to Bahrain on the US government&amp;#039;s dime.&amp;quot; WK, who had previously expressed his excitement about &amp;quot;[showing] the good people of Bahrain the power of positive partying&amp;quot;, wrote on his Twitter page: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m just blown away. After a year of planning, the US State Dept. just canceled my Middle East trip because I&amp;#039;m too party.&amp;quot; He later added: &amp;quot;They can cancel our party in the Middle East, but they can never cancel the party in our hearts. #StayPositiveStayParty.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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