Saudi Arabia’s Everlasting Consultant to the United Nations, Abdullah Bin Yahya Al-Mouallimi, yesterday slammed Israel, saying that it has “robbed the Palestinian individuals of their most simple rights”.
Talking on the Financial and Social Fee for Western Asia (ESCWA) assembly on the financial and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the residing circumstances of the Palestinian individuals within the occupied Palestinian territory, together with Jerusalem, and of the Arab inhabitants within the occupied Syrian Golan, Al-Mouallimi mentioned the precise to growth, self-determination, and life are among the many most simple rights assured beneath worldwide legislation to all peoples, but Palestinians are nonetheless disadvantaged of those.
“The Israeli authorities not solely robbed the Palestinian individuals of their rights to growth but additionally robbed them of their proper to construct an impartial, viable state that embraces their hopes and aspirations,” he mentioned, including that “the United Nations stories point out the extent of violations and the financial and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the residing circumstances of the Palestinian individuals and the residents of the occupied Syrian Golan.”
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He identified that Israel’s disregard for worldwide resolutions displays its tendency to abort all efforts geared toward reaching a simply and complete peace and to proceed its violations towards the Palestinian individuals and the development of settlements.
The Saudi ambassador burdened that reaching growth within the Palestinian territories and the occupied Syrian Golan is intently linked to reaching peace, safety, and justice, due to this fact growth can’t be achieved with out discovering a everlasting, simply, and complete answer to the Palestinian difficulty.
Al-Mouallimi referred to as on the Safety Council to imagine its political and ethical obligations by obligating Israel to adjust to worldwide resolutions and legal guidelines that decision for ending its occupation and the full withdrawal from the occupied Arab lands, together with the Syrian Golan Heights.
The Saudi diplomat reiterated the kingdom’s agency assist for the Palestinian trigger.
