Expatriate workers and the educated elite have mostly fled.
He said the group had no expatriate workers left in the country.
China has since evacuated thousands of its expatriate workers and demanded compensation.
Increased precautions for expatriate workers are "cascading vulnerability" onto locals, it argues.
Women have increased from 8% of expatriate workers five years ago to 13% today.
There are, by current estimates, 1.75million expatriate workers in the immeasurably wealthy Gulf state.
Will providing expatriate workers a danger pay do much to tackle China's pollution crisis?
"Saudization" laws passed five years ago mandated gradually eliminating the need for millions of expatriate workers.
Officials in Kuwait also recently announced a policy to reduce its high proportion of expatriate workers over the next decade.
A busload of expatriate workers was leaving the facility in an armed convoy when the attackers opened fire.
In 2009 sponsorship of expatriate workers was reduced, an initiative meant to address unemployment among native Bahrainis.
