Israel Matzav

'Our friends the Saudis' seethe, cancel UN speech

Furious with UN policy toward Syria and the 'Palestinians,' Saudi foreign minister Saud al-Faisal canceled his address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia's frustration at international inaction over Syria and the Palestinians led it to cancel its speech at the United Nations General Assembly for the first time ever this week, a diplomatic source said.

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By the standards of the world's top oil exporter and birthplace of Islam, which usually expresses diplomatic concerns only in private, the decision represented an unprecedented statement of discontent.

"The Saudi decision... reflects the kingdom's dissatisfaction with the position of the UN on Arab and Islamic issues, particularly the issue of Palestine that the UN has not been able to solve in more than 60 years, as well as the Syrian crisis," said the source.

The conservative Islamic kingdom is one of the main backers of rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad in a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people in two and a half years.

I'm sure that'll bring a lot of people around to the Saudi point of view....

/sarc

Labels: our friends the Saudis, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, Syrian uprising, United Nations General Assembly

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:04 PM