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Al-Mouallimi

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first: 2011-10-24
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“Mr. Al-Mouallimi (Saudi Arabia) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to thank you, Sir, for holding this open debate on the maintenance of international peace and security, and more specifically on the theme"War, its lessons and the search for a permanent peace". This enables the Security Council to consider in-depth a matter that touches the very heart of the Organization's work and that, despite its complexity and importance, has not yet enjoyed due analysis and understanding. I should also like to thank the Under-Secretary- General for Political Affairs, Mr. Feltman, for his briefing. Recognition of the substantive role of the historical narrative in post-conflict national reconciliation and preventive diplomacy reflects a transformation in the maintenance of international peace and security.”
2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source
“All those invited must agree to the requisites of the invitation and officially declare their acceptance, first and foremost to the establishment of a transitional Government. We therefore believe that inviting Iran is out of the question, in particular as it has military soldiers hidden by the regime. Its participation is thus invalid at this juncture. The international community must not waste this opportunity saving face, and the States sponsoring the Conference and the United Nations must respond to the appeal to rescue the sisterly Syrian people. Those with the blood of the Syrian people on their hands must not participate in shaping their future. Furthermore, they must not be granted impunity for their crimes against humanity.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“We are about to convene the second Geneva Conference on Syria, based on the hope that the Secretary-General's call to convene the meeting will continue, based on the framework of the first Geneva Conference, to form a transitional Government with broad competencies covering the State facilities, including intelligence, security and political affairs sectors, and to realize the aspirations of the Syrian people and its ambitions for freedom and dignity, in a manner preserving the territorial integrity, safety and rights of the Syrians, with respect for their various factions, creeds and categories. No one should forget the main goal of the second Geneva Conference on Syria.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“My delegation emphasizes the fact that States that have influence on the Syrian regime must focus such pressure on it, in order to halt the massacres and pogroms it has been perpetrating for the past three years. My delegation appreciates the strenuous efforts undertaken by the United Nations organs to unconditionally deliver humanitarian assistance to the Syrian people. The Security Council must hasten to adopt a decisive resolution on delivering humanitarian assistance to all parties in need, wherever they may be, and to impose deterrent sanctions on those who impede such actions.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“The international community must accelerate efforts to protect the Syrian people. Eyewitnesses from Syria have visited the United Nations and the Council to provide testimony about acts of terrorism to which they had been subjected. It is a war of starvation and subjugation that seeks to humiliate, while farming the fuel of sedition and sowing malcontent. They described the situations of those who are starving in Damascus, Al-Hasakah, Madamiya and Yarmouk, which contain more than 20,000 Palestinian refugees. We are wondering, as are the refugees, how it is possible for the Council to remain unable to adopt even one statement deploring the gravest violations of international humanitarian law. We emphasize the need for foreign combatants to leave the Syrian territory. The spread of foreign armed groups is of grave concern.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“The international community must not allow the Council's resolutions to be undermined by efforts to apply the law of force, which leads to flimsy results dictated by internal affairs and narrow-minded interests. We call for courageous leadership that demands the recognition of rights, without circumventing international law or legitimacy. In that context, justice and equity will lead to the achievement of peace. The current situation of sisterly Syria represents the greatest humanitarian tragedy of the century. The Syrian authorities are subjecting their people to genocide, using all types of weapons, both conventional and non-conventional, including chemical weapons, indiscriminate bombings, Scud missiles and barrel bombs. The regime is antagonizing its people and cannot protect them.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“Incomplete sovereignty over any part of the occupied Palestinian territories, including the Jordan Valley region, is unacceptable. We call for an end to the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Arab Golan, the Sheba'a farms area and the remaining occupied Lebanese territory. An agreement that is not based on justice and equality will lead to a vicious cycle of failed negotiations. We have carefully listened to the statements noting that the decisions required by the peace process demand courage on the part of decision-makers. That does not apply selectively to one party, but not to another. It also applies to the peace process sponsor.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“Saudi Arabia emphasizes the statement made on behalf of the League of Arab States and its resolution 7719 of21 December 2013, underscoring the importance of abiding by the Arab Peace Initiative and of holding the Israeli Government responsible for hampering the progress towards peace. The resolution also called on the United States, as the sponsor of the current peace negotiations, and the other permanent members of the Security Council to compel the Israeli Government to halt settlement activities and to fully lift the blockade against Gaza. We also emphasize that final status issues, including Jerusalem, the borders, refugees, security and water, must comply with relevant United Nations resolutions and not violate any rights guaranteed by international law.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“Robert Serry, that the continuation of settlement activities does not conform with the two-State solution, as well as the statement made by the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, that the situation has become very complex in the light of Israel's continuing settlement activities. He emphasized that the United Nations cannot reconcile settlement expansion with achieving the two-State solution. Achieving the two-State solution may be impossible. We have only to recall and heed the statements made by the Prime Minister ofIsrael in December 2013, that Israel would not stop, not even for one moment, its ongoing settlement project.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“We condemn all attempts to alter the historic and religious identity of the holy sites and call for the immediate cessation of any attempt to demographically alter East Jerusalem, including the campaign to destroy Palestinian homes, strip Palestinians of citizenship and evict them by forceful measures that violate international humanitarian law. We deplore the declaration to build 1,400 more residential units east of occupied Jerusalem and in other occupied Palestinian territories, including the construction of settlements in southern Al-Quds, which cut off historic lines of continuity between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Will 2014 witness the long-awaited moment of truth, namely, the two-State solution? I recall the statement made by the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“The coercive policies of the occupying Power have deprived the Palestinian people of their basic right to live in peace, dignity and freedom and exercise their right to self-determination. Any attempt to hold the Palestinians responsible for the increased tensions - by resorting to the flimsy pretexts for the continuing blockade policy or for the preparations for further attacks - is completely unacceptable. No one should be deceived by such distortions of reality. The occupation is the crux of the matter. Ending the occupation will allow peace, justice and stability to prevail. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, strongly deplores the recurrent attacks and provocative actions in Al-Haram Al-Sharif and the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“We are now witnessing the expansion of the settlements, in contravention of international law. There is also the deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, including Al-Quds Al-Sharif, the continuing collective punishment of the Palestinian people and the blockade against Gaza. While the forces of the occupying Power have released some Palestinian prisoners, they have at the same time continued to detain hundreds of others, including some aged between 15 and 18 years. That is in addition to the recurrent attacks by settlers against the Palestinians. At the same time, in some cases the victims are being urged to absolve the culprits of responsibility.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“Peace-loving peoples still cherish the hope that solidarity with the Palestinian people will translate into a tangible reality, to be experienced by the Palestinians in security, freedom and peace, thereby fulfilling the resolutions of the Security Council. Unfortunately, they are still trampled upon by the Israeli occupation forces with no fear of any deterrence or punishment. As we move into 2014, is it possible that we forget the hopes attached to the advent of last year, 2013, and the efforts deployed to revive negotiations to achieve a just and final resolution to the Palestinian question. Despite the impetus, endeavours and anticipation, Israel continues to flout the will of the international community, defying all international resolutions, including those adopted by the Council.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“I would first like to welcome the designation of 2014 as the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. It expresses the solidarity of the human conscience and international will with the Palestinians' rights to equity andjustice. The Palestinian people have been deprived of those rights for more than six decades. Israel continues to dash the remaining hopes towards achieving a just and comprehensive peace that would end the occupation and give rise to the birth of an independent State of Palestine within the borders of 4 June 1967, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“Mr. Al-Mouallimi (Saudi Arabia) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to extend to you, Mr. President, our congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Council this month and to wish the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan every success. I am also pleased to congratulate the Jordan on its membership of the Council, as well as the other new members. I wish to emphasize our absolute support for you and our preparedness to extend all possible support to bring about the success of your mission. I also thank you for convening this open debate on the situation in the Middle East, and wish to express my delegation's support for the statements to be made on behalf ofthe League ofArab States, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“This will lead peace-loving people of the region to question the validity of international resolutions if the international community is incapable of implementing through its institutions the most straightforward decisionto convene a conference on which everyone is agreed. We urge the members of the Council to renew and to restore the confidence of people around the world in institutions associated with international joint actions headed by the Council. Members need to remain committed to safeguarding international peace and security in a resolute and timely manner.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“A special tribunal needs to hold them accountable for the crimes they have perpetrated, and all those who have soiled their hands with the blood of innocents should be brought to trial. To conclude, we remind the Council of the responsibilities incumbent upon its members for ensuring the implementation of United Nations resolutions on the establishment of zone free of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. I recall that the Council failed in its duty to convene a special international conference to that end in 2012. This year is drawing to a close without there a glimmer of hope that it will be convened.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“Necessary measures also need to be taken to achieve a ceasefire throughout Syrian territory by prohibiting the use of military air assets, including missiles and heavy weapons, and to adopt a ceasefire monitoring mechanism under United Nations supervision. Neither the Syrians nor the world will be able to forget the indifference shown by the international community in its failure to settle the Syrian crisis in a radical and effective way. We reaffirm that the Syrian regime and the forces that have plotted with it against the Syrian people by poisoning them with chemical weapons should not have a place in determining their future. They need to be brought to justice.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“It is high time for the Security Council to put an end to the suffering of the Syrian people by not allowing the Syrian regime to exploit the Council's resolutions on the convening of conferences or the elimination of chemical weapons as a delaying tactic. If the Council does not take the requisite measures, it could risk making the situation in Syria a perennial issue on which the Council will have to meet month after month, year after year, while Syrians continue to die. My delegation affirms the need to resolve the situation in Syria immediately and definitively, without limiting itself to considering the repercussions of the Ghouta massacre and the elimination of Syrian chemical weapons, as was affirmed at the ministerial meeting of the League of Arab States in September.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“The Council responded tardily and minimally to the massacre at Ghouta, when the Syrian regime killed more than 1,000 people using chemical weapons. The response focused exclusively on chemical weapons and minimized the cause of a people fighting for its liberty to the sole issue of chemical weapons. Even when the Security Council has discussed how to deliver humanitarian assistance to those in need, it has limited itself to adopting a presidential statement (S/PRST/20l3/15). The Council must be firm. It must adopt the necessary resolutions that open the possibility of imposing sanctions against anyone who would attempt to carry out unprecedented moral blackmail by denying critical humanitarian assistance to certain provinces and cities.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“My country, which was the first sponsor of the Arab Peace Initiative, calls on the Council to honour its commitments and to shoulder its historic humanitarian and other responsibilities so that the world may not lose hope for peace and its confidence in our common international institutions. In Syria, the Syrian regime continues its campaign of extermination against the Syrian people, using every kind of conventional and non-conventional weapon and killing more than 120,000 people and displacing more than a quarter of the population of Syria. It has even used chemical weapons against defenseless civilians and continues to calmly proceed in such a manner that the Council will be unable to counter its violations or protect its citizens, which is a responsibility of the Syrian regime itself, due to the repeated use of the veto.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“Nor should we forget the serious decision taken by the commanding general of the occupying authorities to give the Jews access to the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque and the attempt to build a synagogue in front of the Al-Marwani Mosque in order to Judaize that holy site. It is time for the Council to renounce its policy of laissez-faire. It needs to be more effective in addressing the Palestinian question. It is high time for the Council to realize that the ongoing Israeli occupation constitutes and has constituted through the decades an ongoing threat to international peace and security.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“Robert Serry, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, who reported on the aggression that cost the lives of Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories, including an officer at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, in the course of an act of aggression perpetrated by Israel. There have been 282 Israeli infiltration operations, according to the United Nations, and Israel has displaced some 176 Palestinians, including 87 children without any explicit condemnation from the Council. Israel is accelerating the pace of its aggression against holy sites through almost daily violations perpetrated by Israeli settlers.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“The Israeli occupation continues, as do the daily violations of Palestinian rights, including displacements, expulsions, arbitary arrests, abuse of prisoners and ongoing settlement activities seeking to change the demographic situation on the ground by confiscating and destroying the houses of Palestinians, expanding the settlements, detaining and mistreating Palestinian demonstrators. Moreover, the blockade of Gaza continues. The United Nations and the international community have repeatedly denounced those arbitrary practices, including last month (see S/PV.7032) when the Council was briefed by Mr.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“There can be no solution to the conflict so long as the resolutions of the United Nations affirming the rights of the Palestinian people to establish their own State remain unimplemented. That has a negative impact on the Middle East region as well as on peace and security around the world. It also allows Israel to pursue its policy of colonization, to hold thousands of prisoners and to violate the sacred nature of the holy sites. It also continues to displace Palestinian citizens, particularly in Jerusalem, and to implement its policy of apartheid and ethnic cleansing. All this is taking place before the very eyes of the Security Council, which has failed to shoulder its responsibilities and putting an end to Israeli occupation, which may well be the only one to outlive the era of racial segregation.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“Mr. Al-Mouallimi (Saudi Arabia) (spoke in Arabic): Let me at the outset, Sir, congratulate you sincerely on your accession this month to the presidency of the Security Council for the second time. I thank you for the crucial role you are playing in the Security Council and for having convened this debate on the situation in the Middle East. My country fully endorses the statement to be made on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, as well as those already made on behalf of the League of Arab States and the Non-Aligned Movement. For more than six decades now, the Council has been seized of the tragedy of the Palestinian people. Israel continues its violations of international law by denying Palestinians their rights, and the Palestinians continue to suffer.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“Saudi Arabia values the efforts of Council members to engage with the wider United Nations membership in open debates and, accordingly, welcomes today's open debate organized by Argentina.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“My delegation stresses the importance of establishing effective mechanisms to coordinate the efforts of the United Nations and those of regional and subregional organizations, in order to enable such organizations to play a more effective role under the umbrella of the United Nations. Such a role would be in harmony with their capabilities, initiatives and expertise and would enable areas affected by conflict to avoid the internationalization of local conflicts, especially when an international body loses its ability to act effectively. In conclusion, I wish to note that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as a member of the Accountability, Coherence, and Transparency group - a cross- regional group of 22 States seeking to improve the working methods of the Security Council - stands for those very principles.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Unfortunately, the Security Council's failure to adopt the positions of the relevant regional organization, the League of Arab States, has contributed to the escalation of the crisis in Syria and the continuing tragedy there, manifested in the death of tens of thousands of victims and millions of displaced citizens. Thus, while the example of Yemen is one of positive cooperation, that of Syria is a negative example of what can happen when such cooperation is absent. The positions held by some members of the Council not only defy the regional consensus but also contradict the will of the international community, as expressed in several consecutive General Assembly resolutions on Syria.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Furthermore, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the sisterly countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council were the first to call for the imposition of a no-fly zone aimed at preventing the perpetration of massacres against the brotherly Libyan people, a call subsequently reiterated by the League of Arab States and the Security Council. Concerning Syria, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was the first Arab country to break the wall of silence about the suffering of peaceful demonstrators exposed to bullets, arrests and torture. Saudi Arabia joined its sister countries in the League of Arab States in developing initiatives aimed at saving the Syrian people from bloodshed and enabling them to achieve their legitimate aspirations of freedom, dignity and prosperity.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“My country has played an active role in resolving a number of regional conflicts in cooperation with relevant regional and subregional organizations, chief among them the leadership role taken by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in sparing its brother State of Yemen the dangers of a grinding civil war, and to help the people of Yemen find positive and creative solutions to the political crisis in their country. Saudi Arabia will continue to provide economic and political support to our Yemeni brothers until they achieve their aspirations. The supportive role played by the United Nations has had an effective impact and demonstrated the international community's solidarity with the plans and initiatives of the GCC.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“In addition, general humanitarian principles - such as the right of peoples to self- determination; the importance of protecting civilians when their authorities are unwilling or incapable of doing so or, as in the case of Syria, when they seek to exterminate them; the preservation of human rights; the refusal to overlook war crimes and crimes against humanity, and the willingness to hold violators committing these crimes accountable - are basic responsibilities that the Council cannot and should not abandon. Cooperation with regional organizations should be based on shouldering those responsibilities and on upholding the principle of the maintenance of peace and security.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“That complexity makes it harder to comprehend the nature and complications of the conflicts, the circumstances in which they are created and how they can be overcome, and makes a better understanding of the intricacies and details of local circumstances imperative. Thirdly, regional organizations, by virtue of their geographic proximity and direct involvement at the local level are in a better position to understand and address local issues. Fourthly, regional organizations have special capabilities in the areas of preventive diplomacy, early- warning systems, peacekeeping and peacebuilding, although that should not exempt the international community from fulfilling its responsibilities by participating in such tasks. In that context, the Security Council retains the primary responsibility for ensuring international peace and security.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“It also encourages the Security Council to try to resolve such disputes through regional institutions. The growing importance of such cooperation is demonstrated by current trends, some of the most important being, first, the escalation in the number of conflicts and the places where such conflicts occur around the world. In the past the Security Council had a limited number of issues to deal with during its regular meetings, but today its agenda is loaded with issues, most of them regional conflicts, making it difficult for the Council to perform its role alone. Secondly, such local conflicts are displaying increasing levels of difficulty and complexity, owing to the intense influence exerted on them by ethnic, religious, cultural and economic factors, as well as other issues linked to foreign interventions and special interests.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Mr. Al-Mouallimi (Saudi Arabia) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, Madam President, I would like to extend my sincere congratulations on Argentina's assumption of the Security Council presidency for this month, and to thank you for the invitation to take part in this open debate on cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations in maintaining international peace and security. I would also like to give special thanks to Her Excellency the President of the Republic of Argentina for presiding over the first part of the meeting. We all agree about the importance of cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations. The Charter of the United Nations emphasizes the importance of urging regional organizations to work towards the peaceful resolution of local disputes.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“The Syrian people have spoken loudly and declared their will by demanding the departure of the Al-Assad regime, which lost its legitimacy as soon as it committed aggression and atrocities against its own people. The search for an equitable solution in Syria must begin by allowing the Syrian people to open a new chapter in their lives - a chapter upon which the sun of freedom will shine and which will allow them to exercise their genuine right to choose their own leadership and their representatives away from the authority of this tyrannical regime.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Moreover, the League of Arab States, which represents the conscience of the Arab community, has stressed the need to reach an equitable solution by enabling the Syrian people to defend themselves, to preserve their rights and dignity, and to achieve their aspirations to freedom. We have lately witnessed the bold steps taken by the Syrian opposition to unite and form the National Syrian Coalition, which has been recognized by more than 100 countries in the world as the representative of the Syrian people. Moreover, the Coalition has been invited to assume the Syrian seat in the League of Arab States. The time has come for the Syrian people to regain their due position in international organizations and bodies.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“We have had enough aggression, enough settlements, and enough occupation. The situation in sister Syria is deteriorating by the day. So far, more than 70,000 people have been killed, as noted in the joint statement issued this month by United Nations humanitarian agencies. Similarly, in the past week the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has provided alarming figures about Syrian refugees, whose numbers are expected to reach more than 3 million. This problem has become an untenable economic burden on neighbouring countries. In fact, it has become a serious threat to security and stability in the region. Through resolutions and decisions of the General Assembly, the world has condemned the Syrian regime, which continues to struggle to maintain power over the bodies of Syrian children, women, the young and the elderly.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Such a peace must be based on a globally agreed two-State solution, according to which the independent State of Palestine would be established with holy Jerusalem as its capital on land occupied by Israel within the borders of4 June 1967. The time has come to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, the Syrian Arab Golan and occupied Lebanese territories. The time has come for the Middle East to enjoy a just, comprehensive and equitable peace. The time has indeed come for Palestinian refugees to return from the diaspora and have their aspirations realized pursuant to General Assembly resolution 194 (III). The time has come for all citizens of our region to enjoy the fruits of peace and to live in security and stability. It is time for our societies to achieve the development and prosperity they deserve.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“We call on the international community to compel Israel to respect the rights of children, just as we draw the international community's attention to the report issued by UNICEF in February 2013 that explicitly depicts the brutal and inhuman punishments meted out by Israel and its occupation forces on the Palestinian children held in their prisons. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, indeed, all Arab countries continue to unequivocally choose peace as the strategic option; their good intentions were reflected in the launching of the Arab Peace Initiative in 2002. However, the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and its continued contempt for and threats against Haram Al-Sharif are undermining any chance to achieve ajust peace.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Moreover, settlers continue to launch brutal attacks and assaults on Palestinians, the latest of which was the deliberate running over on 9 March of a 9-year-old Palestinian child by the name of Malik Adel Al-Shaer. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia calls on the Council to act to protect prisoners. We call on the Human Rights Council, the International Committee of the Red Cross and humanitarian organizations, as well as human rights organizations, to closely monitor the situation of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, and to expose violations of their political, human and physical rights, as well as the severe criminal negligence that is inflicted upon them.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“We feel deeply the grief suffered by the families of the victims, and we wish a speedy and full recovery to the injured, who include Saudi nationals. Regrettably, the achievement of peace and the reaching ofajust and equitable solution to the question of Palestine seems to remain a disappointing mirage. Israel continues to show its defiance and its disdain for the international community's will by proceeding with the expansion of settlements and by reaffirming its determination to persevere in that policy. In addition, it mistreats and devalues the lives of the Palestinian prisoners held in its jails by subjecting them to oppression and starvation, which led this month to the death of the martyr Maysara Abu Hamdieh.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Mr. Al-Mouallimi (Saudi Arabia) (spoke in Arabic): Mr. President, at the outset I should like to extend to you my sincere congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I should like also to thank you for having convened this open debate on the situation in the Middle East. Let me also express my country's support for the statements either made or to be made later by the speakers on behalf ofthe League of Arab States, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Non-Aligned Movement. I should like to begin by offering our condolences to the United States of America in connection with the victims of the criminal terrorist acts that took place in Boston last week. I wish also to reaffirm the sympathy and solidarity of the Saudi people with the American people.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“We urge it to work towards achieving a real and peaceful transfer of power that meets the aspirations and expectations of the Syrian people for freedom, dignity and prosperity and that preserves the unity and territorial integrity of Syria, while respecting the diversity of its people.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“That position of Saudi Arabia stems from its great grief and sadness at the events we witness daily - the killing, destruction and genocide committed by the regime against unarmed civilians. Our country notes that the Security Council has been very slow to take action in response to the tragic situation in Syria and to assume its humanitarian, moral and regional responsibilities. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia urges the Council to respond to the appeals of the Syrian people and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. We call on the Council to promptly act with resolve under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations in order to put an end to the killing being perpetrated by the Syrian regime.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“As it notes with distress the events in Syria, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has not hesitated to shoulder its responsibility by coming to the help of the Syrian people and providing humanitarian assistance and relief aid to the tune of several hundreds of millions of dollars. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will actively participate in the donor conference called for by the Secretary-General, to be held at the end of this month in the State of Kuwait, in order to meet the needs of the Syrian people. Moreover, the Kingdom was among the first countries to recognize the Syrian National Coalition, recognized to date by more than one hundred States. The Coalition must therefore now be given the opportunity to represent the Syrian people in all organizations, bodies and forums.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Threatening to destroy Damascus so that it collapses around its people is only a sign of despair and bankruptcy. The Syrian people feel bitter about the international community's lack of action and at the fact that the Security Council has abandoned them. The Council has to date been unable to stop the Government killing machine. Instead, the killing machine has grown stronger and broadened its scope, committing crimes against humanity and horrendous massacres. My country therefore demands that all perpetrators of those crimes be held accountable before international justice. It calls on the Security Council to shoulder its responsibilities in that regard.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“The tragic situation in Syria has recently taken a serious turn for the worse, with increased killings from air raids conducted by the Syrian Government against its own citizens. It has come to the point of treating its citizens as enemies, killing them and destroying their homes. The number ofvictims is now more than 60,000, while the number of refugees and internally displaced persons is in the millions. Everyone can see that the Syrian regime has lost its legitimacy and can no longer remain in power. It fights to the very end in order to cling to its vanishing authority. It seeks to portray the situation as a dispute between that country and its neighbours, while in fact its people have risen in revolt and have clearly expressed their will, which must be respected. Its clinging to power over the corpses of martyrs cannot continue.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“That is without even mentioning the behaviour of Israeli settlers in the city who commit provocations, including damaging and desecrating mosques and churches. The Council is obligated to compel Israel to cease its current policies and abide by Council and Assembly resolutions. The time has come to do away with the permanent immunity that Israel has enjoyed, to take the measures necessary to guarantee the independence of the State of Palestine, and to put an end to the occupation of its territories. The occupation of the Syrian Arab Golan and the Shab'a farms and other Lebanese territories, must also come to and end. Failure to act will deeply hurt the credibility and stature of the United Nations and the Security Council.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Its first paragraph states that any measures taken by Israel, the occupying Power, to impose its laws and sovereignty are illegal and null and void and lack all legitimacy. Israel continues its campaign of demolition in the area surrounding the holy sites in Al-Quds Al-Sharif, both above ground and especially under and around the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque, in an effort to weaken its foundation, which would lead to its eventual collapse. The excavations around Al-Aqsa Mosque have increased to almost 30 locations. Meanwhile, Israel continues to demolish the homes of Palestinian Jerusalemites and to cancel their residency rights, continuing to evict many Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem, leaving them homeless.”
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